Slums and their suitability for a divorced woman to housing [PDF]
الرافدین للحقوق, 2020 The problem of the emergence of informal housing dates back to the beginnings of the twentieth century in the death in which the rapid urban expansion of cities began with the concentration of government services and interests in the main cities and the ...
Nashwan Alhalem
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Transferability of Object-Oriented Image Analysis Methods for Slum Identification
Remote Sensing, 2013 Updated spatial information on the dynamics of slums can be helpful to measure and evaluate progress of policies. Earlier studies have shown that semi-automatic detection of slums using remote sensing can be challenging considering the large variability ...
Alfred Stein +4 more
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Sub\urban, 2020 Slums gelten als das Symbol der vermeintlich unterentwickelten und unkontrolliert wachsenden Megastädte des Globalen Südens. Die damit einhergehende Stigmatisierung von Slums hat nicht nur alltägliche Folgen für die Bewohner*innen, sondern hat spätestens
Raffael Beier
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Towards a frame of reference (Heuristic Guide) for the development of informal markets in Egyptian rural [PDF]
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2023 Street markets represent an important element in forming the economy of countries, especially those that occupy a large proportion of their area in rural areas, Egypt is one of those countries.
Haitham El Sharnouby
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Urbanisation and Growth of Slum Population in Jharkhand: A Spatial Analysis
Space and Culture, India, 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the relation between the pace of urbanisation and growth of slum population in Jharkhand. This paper also attempts to analyse the trends and patterns of growth of slum population at the district level in ...
Rahul Harshwardhan, V K Tripathy
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Detecting and mapping slums using open data: a case study in Kenya
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020 The worldwide slum population currently stands at over one billion, with substantial growth expected in the coming decades. Traditionally, slums have been mapped using information derived mainly from either physical indicators using remote sensing data ...
Ron Mahabir +4 more
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Empowerment of urban poor neighborhoods (Case study: Ismail Abad neighborhood, District 19 of Tehran Municipality) [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2022 IntroductionTypically, in developing countries, urban growth exceeds the capacity of governments and municipalities to provide services and infrastructure suitable for the population.
Esmail Isazade +2 more
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The 2005 census and mapping of slums in Bangladesh: design, select results and application
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2009 Background The concentration of poverty and adverse environmental circumstances within slums, particularly those in the cities of developing countries, are an increasingly important concern for both public health policy initiatives and related programs ...
Angeles Gustavo +5 more
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Towards Understanding Fire Causes in Informal Settlements Based on Inhabitant Risk Perception
Fire, 2021 Informal settlements (ISs) are a high-risk environment in which fires are often seen. In 2019 alone, 5544 IS fires were reported in South Africa. One of the main problems, when investigating an IS fire, is determining the fire cause. In the last 15 years,
Natalia Flores Quiroz +2 more
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Automated detection of slum area change in Hyderabad, India using multitemporal satellite imagery [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents an approach to automated identification of slum area change patterns in Hyderabad, India, using multi-year and multi-sensor very high resolution satellite imagery.
Luedeke, Matthias, Kit, Oleksandr
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