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Assessing benefits of slum upgrading programs in second-best settings [PDF]
Slum upgrading programs are being used by national and city governments in many countries to improve the welfare of households living in slum and squatter settlements.
Dasgupta, Basab, Lall, Somik V.
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Informal Housing, Inadequate Property Rights: Understanding the Needs of India's Informal Housing Dwellers [PDF]
, 2016 In India, as in many other developing countries, urban population growth and the shortage of planned affordable housing have led to 26–37 million households (33–47 percent of the urban population) living in informal housing (slums and unauthorised ...
Ashish Karamchandani +2 more
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Living in the industrial city: Housing quality, land ownership and the archaeological evidence from industrial Manchester, 1740-1850 [PDF]
, 2011 This paper looks at the recent archaeological evidence for industrial housing in Manchester, United Kingdom. The paper argues that a fragmented land-holding pattern developed in a number of city-centre areas during the second half of the eighteenth ...
Nevell, MD
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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When urban poverty becomes a tourist attraction: a systematic review of slum tourism research
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsOver the last two decades, the phenomenon of “slum tourism” and its academic exploration have seen considerable growth. This study presents a systematic literature review of 122 peer-reviewed journal articles, employing a combined approach of ...
Tianhan Gui, Wei Zhong
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Multidimensions of Urban Poverty - Evidence from India [PDF]
Content of abstract This paper provides a robust multidimensional evaluation of intra -urban differences. The hypothesis that joint consumption of public goods of individuals in non slum urban India dominates those of individuals living in slums is ...
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, S Chandrasekhar
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Poverty in Indian cities during the reforms era [PDF]
This paper seeks to understand temporal changes in poverty and well-being in Indian cities during the era of economic reforms. The evidence on improvements in well being is mixed.
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, S. Chandrasekhar
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The welfare effects of slum improvement programs : the case of Mumbai [PDF]
The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers with better housing in a new location.
Bento, Antonio +2 more
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