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2021
Cities in developing countries are increasingly under stress through urbanization, which leads to the expansion of slum areas or informal settlements due to demand for low-cost housing. This chapter presents the social, environmental, and economic realities facing slum dwellers and discusses their redevelopment into intelligent cities.
Darrold Laurence Cordes +2 more
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Cities in developing countries are increasingly under stress through urbanization, which leads to the expansion of slum areas or informal settlements due to demand for low-cost housing. This chapter presents the social, environmental, and economic realities facing slum dwellers and discusses their redevelopment into intelligent cities.
Darrold Laurence Cordes +2 more
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Legal heritage and urban slums
Journal of Regional Science, 2022AbstractThis paper studies the effect of legal origins (common law vs. civil law) on contemporary slum formation in developing countries. First, we provide a cross‐country correlation analysis. Second, we provide a regression discontinuity analysis using household data from Cameroon.
Per G. Fredriksson +3 more
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1971
In discussing "Pathogenesis of Slums," the point is made that our society, consciously or unconsciously, creates both slums and slumdwellers, and our social system operates to maintain them unchanged. This may perhaps motivate some readers to realize that social problems have causes other than those individually created. How do slums begin?
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In discussing "Pathogenesis of Slums," the point is made that our society, consciously or unconsciously, creates both slums and slumdwellers, and our social system operates to maintain them unchanged. This may perhaps motivate some readers to realize that social problems have causes other than those individually created. How do slums begin?
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2010
Slums have generated renewed interest among scholars in the wake of rapid urbanization in the South and the growing incidence of urban poverty worldwide. This gave rise to the expression “expanding urban slums,” which refers to a phenomenon occurring in the Global South associated with “hyper-urbanization”— rapid urbanization beyond the capacity of the
Michael Humphrey, Shahadat Hossain
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Slums have generated renewed interest among scholars in the wake of rapid urbanization in the South and the growing incidence of urban poverty worldwide. This gave rise to the expression “expanding urban slums,” which refers to a phenomenon occurring in the Global South associated with “hyper-urbanization”— rapid urbanization beyond the capacity of the
Michael Humphrey, Shahadat Hossain
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Partial Hospitalization Within an Urban Slum
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1972Data on 343 patients admitted to the Partial Hospitalization Service of the Lincoln Community Mental Health Center, New York City, over a two-year period indicate that the presence of this service cut admissions to the state hospital by two-thirds. The pressures that exist in an urban slum area in which no inpatient psychiatric facility is available ...
P, Ruiz, G, Saiger
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Measles immunisation coverage in urban slums
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1999A cross-sectional, community-based study was conducted in 32 slums of Udaipur city to assess the prevalence of missed opportunities for measles immunization, reason for their occurrence and potential impact of avoiding them on measles immunization coverage.
M K, Money, P, Mohan
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Resilient Dwellers of Urban “Slums”
Comparative Sociology, 2023Abstract This study was designed to examine the survival activities of the street children in Ibadan, Nigeria, the street sub-cultures among them, the push factors, and language use in terms of their inventions of communication strategies for survival as “slum” dwellers.
Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi +1 more
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Reviews in Anthropology, 1978
William Foote Whyte. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943.xii + 284 pp. $5.00.
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William Foote Whyte. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943.xii + 284 pp. $5.00.
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Urban “slums” and social mobility
Development Policy Review, 2018AbstractInformal urban settlements determine the wellbeing of a large section of global humanity. Yet there has been little research on their role in facilitating social mobility. In theory such settlements may foster human progress by linking rural–urban migrants to the services, contacts and livelihoods concentrated in cities.
Ivan Turok +2 more
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1979
Slum housing is an all-too-familiar part of the British housing scene. In 1976 the English House Condition Survey estimated that nearly 800,000 dwellings were unfit for habitation: this represents nearly 5 per cent of the housing stock. When dwellings lacking one or more basic amenity are added to these, the proportion of substandard housing rises to ...
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Slum housing is an all-too-familiar part of the British housing scene. In 1976 the English House Condition Survey estimated that nearly 800,000 dwellings were unfit for habitation: this represents nearly 5 per cent of the housing stock. When dwellings lacking one or more basic amenity are added to these, the proportion of substandard housing rises to ...
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