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2003
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends.
Ananya Roy, Nezar AlSayyad
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The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends.
Ananya Roy, Nezar AlSayyad
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Historicising Urban Economic Informality
2021This chapter examines the historical emergence and evolution of urban economic informality in general and in the African continent as well as South African and Zimbabwean cities in particular. Parts of Africa with a long history of precolonial urban development, such as West Africa had entrenched urban economic informality which survived colonial ...
Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo
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2012
AbstractThis article examines contemporary understandings of the informal city and situates them in a broader history of ideas. It investigates why certain land uses and settlement patterns are designated as formal by the state while others are criminalized and maintained as informal, and considers the ownership and use of property, focusing on the ...
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AbstractThis article examines contemporary understandings of the informal city and situates them in a broader history of ideas. It investigates why certain land uses and settlement patterns are designated as formal by the state while others are criminalized and maintained as informal, and considers the ownership and use of property, focusing on the ...
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Urban Information Systems and Sustainable Urban Development
1998Regional Science has recently formulated a number of new methodological approaches and some quite sophisticated models, many of which relate to the understanding of a systemic approach to urban realities and the search for tools for its development, beginning with the improvement of decision-making processes.
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The informalization of urbanity
African Identities, 2007It is more appropriate to commence an investigation of informality as a way of life in African contexts within a broad conceptual and historical framework. In other words, it makes some sense to study processes of informalization at the juncture at which the colonial imperative sought to transform the lives, institutions and practices of subject ...
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2017
This master thesis develops a software tool that aids architects in the process of urban analysis. The tool complements an urban 3D model with data from the Google Maps database, generating an urban information model in the process. The topics of urban analysis reach from the function of the building and time of building activity to the location ...
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This master thesis develops a software tool that aids architects in the process of urban analysis. The tool complements an urban 3D model with data from the Google Maps database, generating an urban information model in the process. The topics of urban analysis reach from the function of the building and time of building activity to the location ...
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Built Environment, 2011
Post-colonial Nairobi has experienced a rapid urbanization rate averaging 5 per cent per annum from 1963 to the present. The planning framework inherited from the colonial regime and little changed after Independence has not been able to cope with the increased demand for urban goods and services.
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Post-colonial Nairobi has experienced a rapid urbanization rate averaging 5 per cent per annum from 1963 to the present. The planning framework inherited from the colonial regime and little changed after Independence has not been able to cope with the increased demand for urban goods and services.
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Urban management information systems
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1968Abstract The areas which urban information systems should serve are characterized by lack of organizational unity; hence, “total” urban information systems are meaningless. Management of public agencies in urban areas seldom controls a significant proportion of the variables affecting these areas; information systems should relate in depth to actual ...
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World Development, 1976
It is contended that the informal sector of the urban labor market is not the major point of entry for fresh migrants from rural areas and that large variations in earning exist within it. A disproportionately large number of informal sector workers are: 1) very young or very old; 2) female; 3) limited in education; and 4) not primary household earners.
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It is contended that the informal sector of the urban labor market is not the major point of entry for fresh migrants from rural areas and that large variations in earning exist within it. A disproportionately large number of informal sector workers are: 1) very young or very old; 2) female; 3) limited in education; and 4) not primary household earners.
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