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On Urban Informality: A Pyramid on Slum Upgrading and Placemaking
Comillas Journal of International Relations, 2019 The cities of today are confronted with ever-increasing numbers of informal settlements. Notwithstanding four decades of national and international efforts to reverse the distressing state of affairs, slums have become the main housing type worldwide ...
Natalia Meléndez Fuentes
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Including Urban Informality for Economic Development in Masvingo City, Zimbabwe
Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues, 2020 The informal sector has been excluded in the development of cities despite playing a big role in providing livelihoods to a lot of urban dwellers. Their contribution to the city economy has been marginalized despite the size of this sector and the ...
Average Chigwenya, Prisca Simbanegavi
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Health Implications of Diverse Visions of Urban Spaces: Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 In the past 200 years, urban spaces have been imagined as neatly laid out, well-planned, sanitised and civilised places of dense human habitation with regulated economic activity, where political power, financial capital, the frontiers of knowledge and ...
Ritu Priya +4 more
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Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique [PDF]
, 2015 While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality.
Chikanda, Abel +2 more
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Elevating Informality: Street Vending, Design Politics, and the Remaking of Public Space in Bandung
Urban PlanningTeras Cihempelas, an elevated pedestrian walkway in Bandung, Indonesia, presents a unique case of integrating informal street vending into formal urban infrastructure.
Sidh Sintusingha
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Bajji on the Beach: Middle-Class Food Practices in Chennai’s New Beach [PDF]
, 2012 This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and ..
Arabindoo, P
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Frontiers in Climate, 2022 Anticipatory disaster risk reduction (DRR) is an essential human right for the ~1 billion people living in informal settlements who are disproportionately exposed to climate-related hazards due to their high vulnerability.
Laura E. R. Peters +9 more
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PlaNext, 2017 In her 2010 book, The Just City, Susan Fainstein evaluates justice in her case-study cities (Amsterdam, New York and London) though a three dimensional analysis of justice (Equity, Diversity and Democracy).
Anaïs De Keijser
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Planning in Self-Planned Informal Cities [PDF]
, 2020 Post-colonial urban informality is subject to binary interpretations, entrenching or inverting existing practices. There is a renewed attention in urban studies literature to view cities as self-organising systems rather than as ...
Morshed, Md. Manjur
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Information Dynamics in Urban Crime
Entropy, 2018 Information production in both space and time has been highlighted as one of the elements that shapes the footprint of complexity in natural and socio-technical systems. However, information production in urban crime has barely been studied. This work copes with this problem by using multifractal analysis to characterize the spatial information scaling
Miguel Melgarejo, Nelson Obregon
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