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Assessing benefits of slum upgrading programs in second-best settings [PDF]

Slum upgrading programs are being used by national and city governments in many countries to improve the welfare of households living in slum and squatter settlements.
Dasgupta, Basab, Lall, Somik V.
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Slum Tourism

, 2021
Počeci slum turizma se javljaju sredinom osamnaestog stoljeća u Londonu i drugim gradovima, a koji su rezultat povećanja broja stanovnika koji su dolazili sa sela u industrijski grad u potrazi za poslom.
Budić, Andrea
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Study Of Menstrual Pattern and Menstrual Hygiene Practices Among Adolescent Girls

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2016
Background: Menstrual hygiene and management will directly contribute to MDG-2 and MDG-3. This study was conducted to know the awareness about menstruation before menarche and the source of information; to compare menstrual pattern and menstrual hygiene
Hemlata G Rokade, Anjali P Kumavat
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Exposing the inequalities faced by Mumbai’s ‘informal’ residents

Urban Transcripts, 2020
Throughout the world, public health measures of maintaining proper hygiene, physical distancing and self-isolation have been implemented to contain the corona virus.
Sima Bhattarai
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Urban risk communication in Ahmedabad - India: between slum dwellers and the municipal corporation.

, 2007
Since rapid urban growth forces poor households to settle in highly congested urban areas, slum dwellers are increasingly vulnerable due to a multiplicity of hazards rooted in the environment, nature, health, society and the urban economy.
Woiwode, C.
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Rediscovering Dharavi - Slum rehabilitation

, 2023
LAUREA MAGISTRALELo scopo di questa tesi è ripristinare il vero senso di Dharavi attraverso l'alternanza implementando strategie che aiuteranno a migliorare lo slum, migliorando così le condizioni di vita nello slum.
RAJAN, PRIYA
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Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta, Sahil Gandhi, Richard K. Green   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
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