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Evicting Slums, ‘Building Back Better’: Resiliency Revanchism and Disaster Risk Management in Manila
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2019 This article examines how the politics of managing global catastrophic risks plays out in a stereotypically ?vulnerable? megacity in the global South.
María Álvarez, K. Cardenas
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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Overflowing Cities: The State of the World's Toilets 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 Human beings are now largely an urban species: for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population (54%, or 3.9 billion people) lives in towns, cities and megacities.
Tom Burgess
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The Dominican Grassroots Movement and the Organized Left, 1978–1986
, 2015 Through their struggles for better services, grassroots movements played a large role in the process of democratization and construction of social citizenship in the Dominican Republic.
Betances, Emelio
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Decision-making for delivery location and quality of care among slum-dwellers: a qualitative study in Uttar Pradesh, India. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundIn 2013, the Government of India launched the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) in order to better address the health needs of urban populations, including the nearly 100 million living in slums.
Barge, Sandhya +3 more
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2019 Background An estimated 63.4 million Indian children under 5 years are at risk of poor development. Home visits that use a structured curriculum to help caregivers enhance the quality of the home stimulation environment improve developmental outcomes ...
A. Andrew +8 more
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How does Covid-19 affect urban slums? Evidence from settlement leaders in India
World Development, 2020 Slum settlements have received significant attention for their vulnerabilities to the spread of Covid-19. To mitigate risks of transmission, and alleviate economic distress associated with containment measures, public health experts and international ...
A. Auerbach, Tariq Thachil
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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DOES DEMOLITION OF SLUMS AFFECTS ON PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN’S HEALTH IN MUMBAI? [PDF]
This paper compares the incidence of malnutrition among below five age group children in demolished and not demolished slums in Mumbai. After demolition of kuttcha slums, the incidence of stunting and wasting increases among boys.
Sanjay RODE
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