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NOTES ON THE POLICE PRESENCE IN THE URBAN PERIPHERY OF SALVADOR [PDF]

open access: diamondVibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2018
Abstract This article discusses the implementation of a public security policy - the Community Security Bases program - in Calabar, a favela located on the Atlantic coast of the city of Salvador in Bahia state, Brazil. I explore the ways in which police officers envisage the militarisation of urban peripheries.
Hildon Oliveira Santiago Carade
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CONCEPTUALIZING AFRICAN URBAN PERIPHERIES [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2021
AbstractRecent years have seen a rising interest in peri‐urban spaces, urban frontiers and new suburbanisms, including in African contexts. However, given the scale of urban growth and the extreme diversity of formations emerging on the geographical edges of African city‐regions, a deeper understanding is needed of the drivers of peripheral urbanisms ...
Paula Meth   +3 more
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Urban Land Monetization-Driven Land Use Orientations: An Insight from Land Lease Prices in Addis Ababa

open access: yesLand, 2022
Urban land leasing is a land monetization strategy that was introduced in 1991 by the contemporary regime. Since then, urban center slum demolitions and their replacement by high-end commercial buildings and urban peripheral low-cost residential ...
Amanuel Weldegebriel   +3 more
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Analyzing Segregation of Informal Residents in Latin American Cities’ Periphery Using Remote Sensing

open access: yesRevista Cartográfica, 2022
The urban pattern has changed significantly in Latin American cities over the last decades. Since the 1980s, urban policies have increased the periphery land value, promoting suburbanization that restricted spaces for informal settlers.
Sonia Morales
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The Making of Urban Peripheries and Peripheral Labor: Brick Kilns and Circular Migration in and beyond Greater Delhi

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2021
The paper proposes a reading of the urban periphery from a labor-centered perspective, according to which its relational geography is indexed to the mobility of marginalized migrant workers and labor processes.
Pratik Mishra
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Sostenibilidad urbana en el contexto latinoamericano y en el europeo = Urban sustainability in the Latinoamerican and in the European context

open access: yesCuadernos de Investigación Urbanística, 2020
Resumen La insostenibilidad constituye un tema de reflexión obligada en los momentos actuales que vive el planeta, en donde los grandes desafíos a enfrentar están marcados por el cambio climático, el crecimiento poblacional y la urbanización acelerada ...
José Jorge Peralta Arias
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