Changing Slum Communities
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Changing Slum Communities
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Author : William J. Cousins
language : en
Publisher: New Delhi : Manohar
Release Date : 1979
Changing Slum Communities written by William J. Cousins and has been published by New Delhi : Manohar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Social Science categories.
Report on self help community development projects to improve urban area living conditions in Hyderabad slums in India - evaluates social workers' and UNICEF (role of UN) assistance in encouraging educational opportunity, vocational training for woman workers, small farm and household production, cottage industry based on rural cooperatives, access to credit, etc. References.
Slums And Community Development
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Author : Marshall B. Clinard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Slums And Community Development written by Marshall B. Clinard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Community organization categories.
Analysis of slum housing conditions, with particular reference to poverty and community development in India - covers historical development of urban areas and rural areas settlements, social services, sanitation services, health and living conditions, social change through education, and the role of leadership in communities, etc.
Urban Poverty And Climate Change
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Author : Manoj Roy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-20
Urban Poverty And Climate Change written by Manoj Roy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-20 with Business & Economics categories.
This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local governments, national governments and international organisations, this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of environment and development studies.
Housing Market Dynamics In Africa
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Author : El-hadj M. Bah
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-12
Housing Market Dynamics In Africa written by El-hadj M. Bah and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-12 with Business & Economics categories.
This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost housing alternatives. Through detailed analysis, the authors investigate the political economy surrounding the continent’s housing market and the constraints that behind-the-scenes policy makers need to address in their attempts to provide affordable housing for the majority in need. With Africa’s urban population growing rapidly, this study highlights how broad demographic shifts and rapid urbanization are placing enormous pressure on the limited infrastructure in many cities and stretching the economic and social fabric of municipalities to their breaking point. But beyond providing a snapshot of the present conditions of the African housing market, the book offers recommendations and actionable measures for policy makers and other stakeholders on how best to provide affordable housing and alleviate Africa’s housing deficit. This work will be of particular interest to practitioners, non-governmental organizations, private sector actors, students and researchers of economic policy, international development, and urban development.
Slums
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Author : Alan Mayne
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Slums written by Alan Mayne and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with History categories.
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
The Challenge Of Slums
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Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-05-23
The Challenge Of Slums written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-23 with Political Science categories.
The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.
State Of Slum
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Author : Paul Stacey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-04-15
State Of Slum written by Paul Stacey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Home to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal 'squatters' means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of the rights to which they are entitled as citizens. The case of Old Fadama is far from unique. Across Africa, over half the population now lives in cities, and a lack of affordable housing means that growing numbers live in similar illegal slum communities, often in appalling conditions. Drawing on rich, ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes as its point of departure the narratives that emerge from the everyday lives and struggles of these people, using the perspective offered by Old Fadama as a means of identifying wider trends and dynamics across African slums. Central to Stacey's argument is the idea that such slums possess their own structures of governance, grounded in processes of negotiation between slum residents and external actors. In the process, Stacey transforms our understanding not only of slums, but of governance itself, moving us beyond prevailing state-centric approaches to consider how even a society's most marginal members can play a key role in shaping and contesting state power.
Assessing Benefits Of Slum Upgrading Programs In Second Best Settings
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Author : Basab Dasgupta
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2006
Assessing Benefits Of Slum Upgrading Programs In Second Best Settings written by Basab Dasgupta and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Quality of life categories.
"Slum upgrading programs are being used by national and city governments in many countries to improve the welfare of households living in slum and squatter settlements. These programs typically include a combination of improvements in neighborhood infrastructure, land tenure, and building quality. In this paper, the authors develop a dynamic general equilibrium model to compare the effectiveness of alternative slum upgrading instruments in a second-best setting with distortions in the land and credit markets. They numerically test the model using data from three Brazilian cities and find that the performance of in situ slum upgrading depends on the severity of land and credit market distortions and how complementary policy initiatives are being implemented to correct for these problems. Pre-existing land supply and credit market distortions reduce the benefit-cost ratios across interventions, and change the rank ordering of preferred interventions. In the light of these findings, it appears that partial equilibrium analysis used in typical cost-benefit work overstates the stream of net benefits from upgrading interventions and may in fact propose a misleading sequence of interventions. "--World Bank web site.
Slums And Community Development
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Author : Marshall B. Clinard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Slums And Community Development written by Marshall B. Clinard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with History categories.
From Slums To Communities Of Hope
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Author : Fred Nashed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-12
From Slums To Communities Of Hope written by Fred Nashed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-12 with categories.
Urban renewal and slum rehabilitation have a long history of failure or meager success. Many nations have attempted to address this difficult challenge with very little impact on the lives of slum inhabitants. The United Nations is attempting to solve the problem by convincing industrialized nations to donate large amounts of money to be used on improving some of the physical shortcomings of slums such as providing a safe source of potable water and improving utilities. This effort is important, however, it is only one facet of the problem. Other facets include education, social and health services. This book explores several approaches to solve this problem using incremental steps to train the youth to participate in building new housing and furniture as well as providing the population with employment. The proposed solutions follow a four step approach used in urban planning to find solutions to daunting problems. Organizing the slum population to help themselves, rather than having the government do it for them gives the inhabitants the skill and incentive to maintain their habitat rather than vandalize or neglect it. The author has seen many a well-intended project deteriorate and become as bad as the original it replaced, having worked for the Egyptian government on one of these projects.