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Core City Slums and Vulnerability: A Theoretical and Analytical Approach [PDF]
, 2018 Cities the magnet of hope are pulling people into themselves without preparing for them this influx leads to overconcentration of people in the already blighted cities centers this creates new problems or aggravates the existing ones which makes
Oyeniyi S. O
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The Face of Urban Poverty Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries [PDF]
One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the ...
Arimah, C. Ben
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Cash Transfers in Nairobi's Slums: Improving food security and gender dynamics [PDF]
, 2012 In Kenya, a combination of factors led to the food crisis of 2008-9, which put around 9.5 million people at risk of starvation. About 4.1 million of those affected were living in informal settlements (slums) in the capital, Nairobi.
Harvey, Claire
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Value in the ‘valley of the shadow of death’—When the user is no longer the value arbiter
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The Public Service Logic (PSL) user‐centric perspective on value creation has been one of its main critiques. Scholars argue that for some real‐world applications, such as emergency services, where users cannot engage with service offerings, the PSL must consider the roles of other service actors beyond just facilitators.
Higor Leite, Stephen Osborne
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SPATIAL DIMENSION OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION. AN IMPERIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP OF HOUSING AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN THE SLUMS OF DHAKA CITY [PDF]
Slums are perceived to be heavily populated urban areas characterized by inadequate access to safe water, hygienic sanitation, urban roads, legitimate power supply, poor structural quality of housing and insecure residential status. From that perspective,
Halima BEGUM, Golam MOINUDDIN
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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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Slums in Baghdad city "Analytical planning study"
Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development, 2015 Baghdad city after 2003 emergence of slums in many different areas of Baghdad, due to a variety of reasons, mainly lawlessness after 2003 and the weakness of control municipalities on the land of the state and the land uses, in addition to economic ...
شیماء مطشر حمزة
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2014 BACKGROUND: cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in the world. Over 80% of CVD related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
ladys Mugure +3 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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