The pattern making of mega-slums on semantics in slum urban cultures
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2014 Mega-slums are dynamic laboratories for urban pattern making. Instead of surveying about stable urban symbols represented by formal orders and regular geometries, this study explores the semantic meaning of informal urbanism associated with chaos or ...
Carmelo Zappulla +2 more
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Urban upgrading of slums: Baghdad and London slums as study models for urban rehabilitation
Computational Urban Science, 2023 This phenomenon of slums represents one of the most serious problems that Iraqi cities suffer from, especially the city of Baghdad, which has become teeming with a lot of slum buildings that have distorted most of its areas and neighborhoods. Most of the
Ali Dhafer Abed
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Health and health-related indicators in slum, rural, and urban communities: a comparative analysis [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2016 Background: It is generally assumed that urban slum residents have worse health status when compared with other urban populations, but better health status than their rural counterparts. This belief/assumption is often because of their physical proximity
Blessing U. Mberu +3 more
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Referral experiences of healthcare consumers: results from a cross-sectional study in urban slums in southeast Nigeria [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionThe inadequate referral system in Nigeria is partly due to the proliferation of informal healthcare providers (IHPs) and constraints within formal providers in urban slums.
Chinelo Obi +10 more
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Community leaders' perspectives on linking formal and informal health providers in Nigerian urban slums: a qualitative study [PDF]
Discover Social Science and HealthIntroduction Poor living conditions and poverty in urban slums mean that informal health providers (IHPs) often dominate health service provision in such settings.
Benard Okechi +5 more
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The role of the Egyptian designer in the development of slums And the development of design vocabulary for service areas as one of the most important axes of sustainable development (A case study for the Umm Bayoumi area - Umm al-Dunya Square - Qalyubia Governorate) [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm, 2022 Comprehensive urban development and the elimination of slums is the state’s strategy for years, during which it has achieved many achievements through well-thought-out plans carried out by the Slum Development Fund to make Egypt free from unsafe slums ...
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Urbanization and Slum Formation [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health, 2007 The formation of slums need not be inevitable with rapid urbanization. Such an argument appears to be contradicted by evidence of large slum populations in a large number of developing countries and particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions like Asia.
Ooi, G.L., Phua, K.H.
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Infant mortality in an urban slum [PDF]
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2007 Infant and child mortality are important indicators of the level of development of a society, but are usually collected by governmental agencies on a region wide scale, with little local stratification. In order to formulate appropriate local policies for intervention, it is important to know the patterns of morbidity and mortality in children in the ...
A, Vaid, A, Mammen, B, Primrose, G, Kang
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Zika: A scourge in urban slums [PDF]
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Author(s): Snyder, Robert E; Boone, Claire E; Cardoso, Claudete A Araujo; Aguiar-Alves, Fabio; Neves, Felipe PG; Riley, Lee ...
Robert E. Snyder +5 more
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Urbanisation and Growth of Slum Population in Jharkhand: A Spatial Analysis
Space and Culture, India, 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the relation between the pace of urbanisation and growth of slum population in Jharkhand. This paper also attempts to analyse the trends and patterns of growth of slum population at the district level in ...
Rahul Harshwardhan, V K Tripathy
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