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Urban Slums Sustainable Regeneration Through Foresight Approach Case Study: Sanandaj Urban Slums [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2020 Introduction Almost half of the world's population lives in cities. According to the report (UN-HABITAT) Urban areas in the next 30 years, They will be the most important centers of world population growth and with this increase in population, Planners ...
Mohammad Reza Pourmohammadi +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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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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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik +8 more
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Transforming Slums Through Urban Intensification [PDF]
World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 2022 Unplanned rapid urbanization is leading to the mass formation of informal settlements in many developing cities around the world. It is estimated that globally approximately 30% of urban residents inhabit such informal settlements. These settlements are characterized by poor physical urban structures, insecure land tenure, overcrowding, and poor ...
Omer, K, Watts, GN, Moustaka, A
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The role of earth observation in an integrated deprived area mapping “system” for low-to-middle income countries [PDF]
, 2020 Urbanization in the global South has been accompanied by the proliferation of vast informal and marginalized urban areas that lack access to essential services and infrastructure.
Boo, Gianluca +11 more
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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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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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Morbidity profile of under-5 slum dwellers of Amritsar city: A descriptive cross-sectional study
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021 Context: Children living in slums are deprived from basic necessities. Unhygienic environment and deficient nutrition hinder their growth and make them more prone to infectious diseases.
Jasmeet Singh +5 more
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Creating Space: Sack Gardening as a Livelihood Strategy in the Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 As many countries in sub-Saharan Africa undergo rapid urbanization, a growing number of people are joining the ranks of the urban poor. Urban agriculture is a livelihood strategy used by the poor to improve their well-being, but it has remained largely ...
Courtney M. Gallaher +3 more
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