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Politics, information and the urban bias [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, 2004 Abstract Governments in many LDCs skew public resources towards urban sectors, despite a majority of citizens residing in rural areas. This paper develops a novel political argument for this urban-bias phenomenon in a framework where all voters, rural and urban, have equal voice, but differ in their access to information.
Sumon Majumdar +2 more
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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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Animated cartography for urban soundscape information
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems, 1999In urban areas, city noises represent today a great problem. They are real nuisances for city-dwellers. Noises are caused by traffic, road works, factories, and also by people. So taking into account noises on urban planning should enhance the quality of life of everybody.
Myoung-Ah Kang, Sylvie Servigne
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Urbanization and Urban Informality in the Era of Globalization
2021In 2018, United Nations estimated the total population of the planet was 7.7 billion of which 55.28% are live in urban areas. One billion people live in slums and informal settlements today, representing about 30% of the world’s urban population. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and New Urban Agenda focused on sustainable urbanization and ...
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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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On Handling Urban Informality in Southern Africa [PDF]
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, 2013 In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
Amin Y Kamete
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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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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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