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Journal of Urban Management, 2019 Sanitation facilities are one of the major aspects of an urban area which has paramount importance on the quality of life and environment. The city of Khulna, 3rd largest city of Bangladesh, contains 8.14% slum of total area where poor sanitation ...
Md. Shaharier Alam, M. Mondal
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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INFRASTRUKTUR PERMUKIMAN KUMUH DI KECAMATAN DENPASAR BARAT
Ruang-Space: Jurnal Lingkungan Binaan, 2015 The Mayor of Denpasar has designated 35 slum areas, nine being located in the most populousarea of West Denpasar, with the provision of infrastructure remaining a critical issue. Thefollowing research had two objectives.
Desak Made Sukma Widiyani
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A qualitative study of factors affecting mental health amongst low-income working mothers in Bangalore, India. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundLow-income urban working mothers face many challenges in their domestic, environmental, and working conditions that may affect their mental health.
Heymann, Sally Jody +2 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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L’expérience plurielle de la vulnérabilité au sein des bidonvilles
Populations Vulnérables, 2019 In recent decades, residential vulnerabilities have experienced a new boom. This to the point of making the Abbé Pierre foundation say that they would be 15 million people to be confronted with difficulties related to housing.
Jean-Baptiste Daubeuf
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Shelter Development Through Cooperatives: A Strategy for Poverty Alleviation and Slum Improvement for Asia and the Pacific Region [PDF]
, 2002 The research traces the flow of humanity from the urban areas to the cities thus creating severe economic and social problems in the cities thus leading to homelessness; lack of sanitation; health hazards; crimes; vandalism; drugs; children wandering ...
M. L. Khurana
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Informal Housing, Inadequate Property Rights: Understanding the Needs of India's Informal Housing Dwellers [PDF]
, 2016 In India, as in many other developing countries, urban population growth and the shortage of planned affordable housing have led to 26–37 million households (33–47 percent of the urban population) living in informal housing (slums and unauthorised ...
Ashish Karamchandani +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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