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Access to Water in the Slums of the Developing World [PDF]
, 2009 The text and data in this publication may be reproduced as long as the source is cited. Reproductions for commercial purposes are forbiddenThe discussion reveals the failure of public policies as well as markets to provide satisfactory solutions to the ...
Dagdeviren, Hulya, Robertson, Simon A.
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Birth spacing and child mortality: an analysis of prospective data from the Nairobi urban health and demographic surveillance system. [PDF]
, 2012 The majority of studies of the birth spacing-child survival relationship rely on retrospective data, which are vulnerable to errors that might bias results.
Cleland, John +4 more
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Transaction Costs and Housing Affordability in Asia [PDF]
Asia is home to some of the fastest growing cities in the world. As urbanization increases, demand for housing also increases. Well functioning housing markets can minimize problems associated with rapid urbanization such as unaffordable housing and ...
Prince Christian R. Cruz
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Theoretical Construction of Slum Settlement Area Arrangement as an Alternative Tourist Destination in Urban Areas [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesUrban slums as an illustration of economic and social development gaps in urban areas. Settlements that are synonymous with poverty are generally settlements that are not ready to face urban dynamics.
Juniar Achmad Gani Pratiwi +3 more
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The Role of Education in Self-Sustaining Community Development [PDF]
, 2017 Self-sustaining community development strategies, focused on education as a means for change, have great potential to make an impact on worldwide poverty.
Riegel, Leanne
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Population mapping in informal settlements with high-resolution satellite imagery and equitable ground-truth [PDF]
, 2020 We propose a generalizable framework for the population estimation of dense, informal settlements in low-income urban areas–so called ’slums’–using high-resolution satellite imagery.
Jarvis, Stephen A. +3 more
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Is land‐use deregulation enough to deliver housing?: The case of institutional frictions in India
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply in the presence of additional institutional frictions, such as ill‐defined property rights. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put limits on individual ownership of private vacant land in the largest cities, were repealed during the 2000s.
Arnab Dutta +2 more
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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