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EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What is missing in our understanding of urban slum environments and maternal, infant and young child nutrition from publicly available data in Asia and the Pacific?

Maternal and Child Nutrition
Given the recent, rapid urbanisation in Asia and the Pacific region, coupled with increases in the triple burden of malnutrition, we need to better understand maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) for populations living in urban slum ...
Emma Haycraft, Damith Chandrasenage, David Wambui, Sophie Goudet, Emily Rousham, Megan Stanley, Zivai Murira, Paula Griffiths   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon, Agnieszka Leszczynski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking for a way out: The dynamics of slum life, poverty, and everyday resistance in Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This article looks into the implications of urban informality in Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum (2012) as represented in slum life and urban poverty. It aims to investigate the impact of urban poverty
Nada Soliman
doaj   +1 more source

Birth spacing and child mortality: an analysis of prospective data from the Nairobi urban health and demographic surveillance system. [PDF]

, 2012
The majority of studies of the birth spacing-child survival relationship rely on retrospective data, which are vulnerable to errors that might bias results.
Cleland, John, Elungata, Patricia, Fotso, Jean Christophe, Mberu, Blessing, Mutua, Michael   +4 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Community Resilience in Overcoming Untidiness Due to the Flood in Kemijen Village Semarang [PDF]

, 2016
Reduction targets slum area in Indonesia today, leaving 12% of urban areas or the equivalent of 7.2 million households alleviation of untidiness. Whereas national goal is 0% urban slums will be gone in 2019. When referring to the World Habitat Day (World
Rahdriawan, Mardwi, Soetomo , Sugiono, Yuliastuti, Nany   +2 more
core  

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges to Achieving Surgical Equity in Slums

International Journal of Public Health
There is a critical lack of surgical data on individuals who live in urban slums, which hampers the allocation of healthcare resources and the provision of preventative measures.
Rahul M. Jindal, Rahul M. Jindal, Rahul M. Jindal, Sushila Tiwari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source