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Poor-Inclusive Urban Sanitation: An Overview [PDF]
, 2013 This paper provides an overview of urban sanitation while highlighting the need to address this challenge with emphasis on including slum dwellers and poor communities that have typically been ...
Chris Heymans +2 more
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Poor infant feeding practices and high prevalence of malnutrition in urban slum child care centres in nairobi: a pilot study [PDF]
, 2015 Little is known about the style and quality of feeding and care provided in child day-care centres in slum areas. This study purposively sampled five day-care centres in Nairobi, Kenya, where anthropometric measurements were collected among 33 children ...
Garcia, Ada L. +4 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Slum Management Analysis Using Bibliometric Analysis
Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi NegaraThe presence of slum areas has emerged as a critical issue, sparking extensive debates across various sectors. Slum settlements, characterized by substandard living conditions due to factors such as high building density, inadequate infrastructure, poor ...
Muhammad Andhika Sukma +3 more
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A Study on Community Participation in Implementing Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Sector Project in Kelurahan Pontap, Palopo [PDF]
, 2010 City’s population growth will highly influence the increase of housing needs because housing is one of the basic necessities besides cloths and food. Apparently, this becomes serious problem when it is related to poor urban residents who are impelled to ...
RATU BARI, MONICA
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Hypertension in a Brazilian Urban Slum Population [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health, 2015 Low- and middle-income countries account for the majority of hypertension disease burden. However, little is known about the distribution of this illness within subpopulations of these countries, particularly among those who live in urban informal settlements.
Alon, Unger +11 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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The Humanistic-Anthropocosmic Paradigm as a Framework for Transforming Slum Settlements in Indonesia [PDF]
Local WisdomThe aim of this paper is to elucidate the new humanistic-anthropocosmic paradigm as a framework for transforming urban slum settlements in Indonesia amidst climate change and within a multidimensional living context.
Yohanes Djarot Purbadi +1 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning for Automatic Slum Identification from VHR Imagery
Remote Sensing, 2017 Slum identification in urban settlements is a crucial step in the process of formulation of pro-poor policies. However, the use of conventional methods for slum detection such as field surveys can be time-consuming and costly.
Juan C. Duque +2 more
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