Building Urban Safety Through Slum Upgrading
Title | Building Urban Safety Through Slum Upgrading PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Un-Habitat |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Public safety |
ISBN |
"Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban development agendas. Impact on urban safety has occurred somewhat unexpectedly. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the pages of this book: urban policy integration."--pub. desc.
Analytical Perspective of Pro-poor Slum Upgrading Frameworks
Title | Analytical Perspective of Pro-poor Slum Upgrading Frameworks PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | UN-HABITAT |
Pages | 79 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Community development |
ISBN | 9211318416 |
Slum Upgrading and Participation
Title | Slum Upgrading and Participation PDF eBook |
Author | Ivo Imparato |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780821353707 |
The UN currently estimates that there are about 837 million urban slum dwellers worldwide, and this figure is likely to rise to 1.5 billion by 2020 if current trends are not reversed. This book offers five geographically and institutionally diverse case studies from Latin America, where some of the longest-running and most successful programmes in this field have been conducted. These programmes, involving a wide variety of funding arrangements and agencies, demonstrate the positive impact that community participation and people-oriented service solutions can have on slum upgrading efforts in low income urban areas.
Slum Upgrading
Title | Slum Upgrading PDF eBook |
Author | Fernanda Magalhães (City planner) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Slums |
ISBN | 9781597821636 |
Slum Health
Title | Slum Health PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Corburn |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-06-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520281063 |
Urban slum dwellersÑespecially in emerging-economy countriesÑare often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy.ÊSlum HealthÊexposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and ÒstreetÓ scienceÑprofessional and lay knowledgeÑis crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.
Land and Slum Upgrading
Title | Land and Slum Upgrading PDF eBook |
Author | Szilard Fricska |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Land use, Urban |
ISBN |
Unlawful Occupation
Title | Unlawful Occupation PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Huchzermeyer |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781592212118 |
In the past few years the issue of land invasion and government reposnses to landlessness in the Southern African region has been at the forefront of international attention. By confronting the the questions of exclusion and unlawful occupation this book examines the appropriateness of the informal settlement response in South Africa through a comparison with Brazil. This detailed comparison sets forth the difference in the approaches of both countries, with South Africa employing the individualised, standardised intervention and Brazil a more responsive one.