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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Journal of Participatory Research MethodsDespite the expanding population of children in urban slums, the strive to ensure equitable education remains an under-appreciated and under-developed area.
InJung Cho
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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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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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Bibliometric and scoping study of research on urban deprived areas and slums
Discover CitiesSlums, informal settlements, and deprived areas are urban regions characterized by poverty. According to the United Nations, over one billion people reside in these areas, and this number is projected to increase.
Katharina Henn +5 more
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Aceh International Journal of Science and Technology, 2019 a slum will cause many problems for many cities. The urbanization factor is one of the causes of slums due to the limited urban housing area. In general, there are seven slum indicators that can determine the quality of residential areas, one of which is
Herman Fithra +2 more
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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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Assessing texture pattern in slum across scales: an unsupervised approach [PDF]
, 2005 According to the Global Report on Human Settlements (United Nations, 2003), almost 1 billion people (32% of the world ’s population) live in squatter settlements or slums.
Barros Filho, M., Sobreira, F.
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A qualitative study of factors affecting mental health amongst low-income working mothers in Bangalore, India. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundLow-income urban working mothers face many challenges in their domestic, environmental, and working conditions that may affect their mental health.
Heymann, Sally Jody +2 more
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