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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.
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Slums, Ghettos, and Urban Marginality
Urban Geography, 2010Following the riots of 2005, many commentators were drawn to a comparison of Paris's "problem areas" with the U.S. urban ghetto. But are the poor suburbs of Paris truly akin to the Black ghetto of Chicago, the quintessential American city of sociological lore? Urban Outcasts makes a powerful case against the efficacy of the comparison.
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Spread of COVID-19 in urban neighbourhoods and slums of the developing world
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2021Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen +1 more
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Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1939
Homer Hoyt, Mabel L. Walker
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Homer Hoyt, Mabel L. Walker
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Determinants of demand for credit by poor: evidence from urban slums of Mumbai
International Journal of Financial Services Management, 2021exaly +2 more sources
Urban but off the grid: the struggle for water in two urban slums in greater Accra, Ghana
African Geographical Review, 2016Justin Stoler, Raymond Tutu
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