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Legal heritage and urban slums
Journal of Regional Science, 2022AbstractThis paper studies the effect of legal origins (common law vs. civil law) on contemporary slum formation in developing countries. First, we provide a cross‐country correlation analysis. Second, we provide a regression discontinuity analysis using household data from Cameroon.
Per G. Fredriksson +3 more
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1979
Slum housing is an all-too-familiar part of the British housing scene. In 1976 the English House Condition Survey estimated that nearly 800,000 dwellings were unfit for habitation: this represents nearly 5 per cent of the housing stock. When dwellings lacking one or more basic amenity are added to these, the proportion of substandard housing rises to ...
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Slum housing is an all-too-familiar part of the British housing scene. In 1976 the English House Condition Survey estimated that nearly 800,000 dwellings were unfit for habitation: this represents nearly 5 per cent of the housing stock. When dwellings lacking one or more basic amenity are added to these, the proportion of substandard housing rises to ...
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Researching Urban Slum Health in Nima, a Slum in Accra
2013The UN-Habitat defines a slum as a human settlement with inadequate access to safe water, inadequate access to sanitation and other infrastructure, poor structural quality of housing, overcrowding; and insecure residential status (UN-Habitat 2005; Riley et al. 2007).
Emmanuel Aggrey-Korsah, Joseph Oppong
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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.
Ivan Turok +2 more
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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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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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Transforming Slums in Ghana: The Urban Regeneration Approach
Cities, 2021Mehmet KÜÇÜkmehmetoĞlu
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