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Occupational Medicine, 2015 Abstract In Slum clinics Dianne Baxendine briefly explores her summer working medical clinics in an Indian slum, and the many occupational hazards that she came across.
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Life between the city and the village: Scaling analysis of service access in Indian urban slums
World Development, 2021 The emergence of India as an urbanized nation is one of the most significant socioeconomic and political processes of the 21st century. An essential feature of India’s urbanization has been the growth and persistence of slums in its fast-developing ...
A. Sahasranaman, L. Bettencourt
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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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Quantifying slum electrification in India and explaining local variation [PDF]
, 2015 Unreliable electricity supply is a major obstacle to economic development in countries such as India. While electricity problems in the rural areas are widely recognized, scholars have yet to analyze the situation in urban slums.
Aklin, Michaël +3 more
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Land Use Policy, 2021 People living in slums and other deprived areas in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) cities are under-represented in censuses, and subsequently in "top-down" gridded population estimates.
D. Thomson +5 more
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IDENTIFYING AND MAPPING OF SLUMS IN PUNE CITY USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019 In India, rapid growth of slums in urban areas, especially in metropolitan cities, has become a major problem for the planners and decision-makers. The slum expansion is mainly due to the rural-urban migration and pressure of the population on un-used ...
N. Mundhe, N. Mundhe
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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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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 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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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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