Housing as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence from Singapore, the UK, and Kenya: the 3-D Commission. [PDF]
J Urban Health, 2021 Mwoka M +10 more
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Slum Upgrading and Community Participation - A case study on slum upgrading in Kibera
, 2017 Construction projects will affect numerous actors with various interests, needs and demands. Different project will affect different actors where their specific interests will vary depending on project type but also throughout the projects execution ...
Flinck, Magnus
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Sustainability and Equity in Urban Development (S&EUD): A Content Analysis of "Bright Spots" from the Accelerating City Equity (ACE) Project. [PDF]
Sustainability, 2023 Dsouza N +5 more
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Re-conceptualizing sustainable urban sanitation in Uganda: why the roots of 'Slumification' must be dealt with. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Kwiringira JN +6 more
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The Politics of Institutional Renovation and Economic Upgrading: Lessons from the Argentine Wine Industry [PDF]
Through a comparative, longitudinal analysis of the wine industry in two Argentine provinces, this article examines how different political approaches to reform shape the ability of societies to build new institutions for economic upgrading.
Gerald Mc Dermott
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An overview of top-down vs. bottom-up models for informal settlement upgrading in South Africa [PDF]
, 2016 The paper explores informal settlement upgrading approaches in South Africa and presents a review of top-down vs. bottom-up models, using experience and lessons learned from the Durban metropolitan area. Reflections on past upgrading efforts suggest that
Loggia, C. +3 more
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Participatory Urban Upgrading : The Case of Ezbet Bekhit, Cairo, Egypt
, 2003 As a mega-city and the most populated city in Africa, Cairo is characterised by a high birth rate, escalating rural-urban migration and where the socio-economic services are centralized and overwhelmed, these generally poor migrants have no choice other ...
Noureddine Tag-Eldeen, Zeinab
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Our Opinions Matter: an Action Research Project with Parents and Children in the Canal Communities: Final Report Dublin, Canal Communities Partnership. [PDF]
, 2008 This report details the collaborative action research conducted by the Centre of Social and Educational Research (CSER) on behalf of the Canal Communities Partnership (CCP). Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has been adapted to achieve two
Kelly, Sinead +2 more
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The urban penalty of COVID-19 lockdowns across the globe: manifestations and lessons for Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
GeoJournal, 2022 Chirisa I +5 more
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, 2004 International 'good practice' and local action: conservation and change in a slum upgrading project in India Despite the international rhetoric describes best practices as effective models for local improvements, much critique has been moved to that ...
Laura Grassini
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