Learning From The Slums For The Development Of Emerging Cities

Author : Jean-Claude Bolay,Jérôme Chenal,Yves Pedrazzini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319317946

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Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities by Jean-Claude Bolay,Jérôme Chenal,Yves Pedrazzini Pdf

This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning. It radically reverses the official version of the history of world cities as narrated during decades: slums are not at the margin of the contemporary process of urbanization; they are an integral part of it. Taking slums as its central focus and regarding them as symptomatic of the ongoing transformations of the city, the book moves to the very heart of the problem in urban planning. The book presents 16 case studies that form the basis for a theory of the slum and a concrete development manual for the slum. The interdisciplinary approach to analysing slums presented in this volume enables researchers to look at social and economic dimensions as well as at the constructive and spatial aspects of slums. Both at the scientific and the pedagogical level, it allows one to recognize the efforts of the slum’s residents, key players in the past, and present development of their neighborhoods, and to challenge public and private stakeholders on priorities decided in urban planning, and their mismatches when compared to the findings of experts and the demands of users. Whether one is a planner, an architect, a developer or simply an inhabitant of an emerging city, the presence of slums in one’s environment – at the same time central and nonetheless incongruous – makes a person ask questions. Today, it is out of the question to be satisfied with the assumption of the marginality of slums, or of the incongruous nature of their existence. Slums are now fully part of the urban landscape, contributing to the identity and the urbanism of cities and their stakeholders.

Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190879457

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The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum by Alan Mayne Pdf

""Slum" is among the most evocative and judgmental words of the modern world. It originated in the slang language of the world's then-largest city, London, early in the nineteenth century. Its use thereafter proliferated, and its original meanings unraveled as colonialism and urbanization transformed the world, and as prejudice against those disadvantaged by these transformations became entrenched. Cuckoo-like, "slum" overtook and transformed other local idioms: for example, bustee, favela, kampong, shack. "Slum" once justified heavy-handed redevelopment schemes that tore apart poor but viable neighborhoods. Now it underpins schemes of neighbourhood renewal that, seemingly benign in their intentions, nonetheless pay scant respect to the viewpoints of their inhabitants. This Oxford Handbook probes both present-day understandings of slums and their historical antecedents. It discusses the evolution of slum "improvement" policies globally from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It encompasses multiple perspectives: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, history, politics, sociology, urban studies and urban planning. It emphasizes the influences of gender and race inequality, and the persistence of subaltern agency notwithstanding entrenched prejudice and unsympathetically-applied institutionalized power. Uniquely, it balances contributions from scholars who deny the legitimacy of "slum" in social and policy analysis, with those who accept its relevance as a measuring stick of social disadvantage and as a vehicle for social reform. This Handbook does not simply footnote the past; it critiques conventional understandings of urban social disadvantage and reform across time and place in the modern world. It suggests pathways for future research and for alleviative reform"--

Author : Raffael Beier
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783832549510

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From the City to the Desert by Raffael Beier Pdf

In recent years, large-scale housing and resettlement projects have experienced a renaissance in many developing countries and are increasingly shaping new urban peripheries. One prominent example is Morocco's Villes Sans Bidonville (cities without shantytowns) programme that aims at eradicating all shantytowns in Morocco by resettling its population to apartment blocks at the urban peripheries. Analysing the specific resettlement project of Karyan Central, a 90-year-old shantytown in Casablanca, this book sheds light on both process and outcome of resettlement from the perspective of affected people. It draws on rich empirical data from a structure household survey (n=871), qualitative interviews with different stakeholder, document analysis, and non-participant observation gathered during four months of field research. The author emphasises that the VSB programme, although formally part of anti-poverty and urban inclusion policies, puts primary focus on the clearance of the shantytown. Largely based on ill-informed policy assumptions, stigmatisation, rent-seeking, and opaque implementation practices, the VSB programme interpreted adequate housing in a narrow sense. By showing how social interactions, employment patterns, and access to urban functions have changed because of resettlement, the book provides sound empirical evidence that housing means more than four walls and a roof.

Author : Ahmed M. Soliman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030689889

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Urban Informality by Ahmed M. Soliman Pdf

This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South. The context of Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan—in the Middle East— is the transregional focus of this book. In these contexts, the book opens a new arena of academic discussion on the theory and practice of urban informality. Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities questions urban informality, "as a site of transitions", interrelated and interlinked with urban sustainability transitions in speedy changes in a given environment. The book presents ‘urban informality sustainability transitions’ regarding resilience and adaptability that require shifts in urban systems. Shifts from a static process to a dynamic process that eradicates the fragmentation between the tensions, anxieties, and pressures of four modes of production, reproduction, consumptions, and distribution of goods and services in the city and its practices. Finally, through eleven chapters, the concluding remarks explore to what extent and how can urban informality transitions be sustainable.

Author : Brian J. Caldwell,Jim M. Spinks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135072100

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The Self-Transforming School by Brian J. Caldwell,Jim M. Spinks Pdf

The Self-Transforming School combines an insightful meta-analysis of factors contributing to the success of schools, and an examination of powerful mega-trends that are shaping developments in education, to offer the first mega-analysis in education policy and practice. The book spans fifty years, beginning with Caldwell and Spinks’ ground-breaking work The Self-Managing School which advocated innovative approaches that are now accepted as preferred practice, before offering a prognosis and plan for the future. The book argues that all schools in all settings can secure success for all students in an era where society and the economy are changing constantly and dramatically. Although schools find some support in local and global networks, externally designed re-structuring, re-staffing, or command-and-control direction isn’t sufficient to achieve transformation. Instead of replicating particular approaches to achieve modest improvement, leadership of the highest quality needs to be deeply embedded in schools and their systems. Caldwell and Spinks propose three important points that need to be taken into consideration: -schools are often at different stages of self-transformation -self-transformation requires a high level of professionalism, and must include teacher education and on-going professional development -funding is critically important, and efforts to build a capacity for self-transformation are constrained by what is available. The book gives particular attention to developments in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Shanghai, Singapore and the United States. It will be of key interest to school leaders, policy makers, and academics and postgraduate students engaged in research on equity, student performance in highly disadvantaged settings and education policy.

Author : Fernanda Magalhães (City planner)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Slums
ISBN : 1597821632

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Slum Upgrading by Fernanda Magalhães (City planner) Pdf

Author : Eugenie L. Birch,Shahana Chattaraj,Susan M. Wachter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812292572

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Slums by Eugenie L. Birch,Shahana Chattaraj,Susan M. Wachter Pdf

Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments where state policies and market actors still do play a role. In this volume, contributors examine how the form and function of informal real estate markets are shaped by legal systems governing property rights, by national and local policy, and by historical and geographic particularities of specific neighborhoods. Their essays provide detailed portraits of individuals and community organizations, revealing in granular detail the working of informal real estate markets, and they review programs that have been implemented in unconventional settlements to provide lessons about the effectiveness and implementation challenges of different approaches. Chapters explore the relationships between informality, state policies, and market forces from a range of disciplinary perspectives and on different scales, from an analysis of the relationship between regulations and housing in 600 developing world cities to an ethnographic account of the buying and selling of houses in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. While many of the book's contributors focus on the emerging economies of India and Brazil, the conclusions drawn illustrate dynamics relevant to developing countries throughout the Global South. The diversity of perspectives combines to create a rich understanding of an important, complex, and understudied topic. Contributors: Arthur Acolin, Sai Balakrishnan, Eugenie L. Birch, José Brakarz, Shahana Chattaraj, Sebastian Galiani, David Gouverneur, Yvonne Mautner, Paavo Monkkonen, Vinit Mukhija, Janice E. Perlman, Lucas Ronconi, Bish Sanyal, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Patrícia Cezário Silva, Susan M. Wachter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9789211318418

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Analytical Perspective of Pro-poor Slum Upgrading Frameworks by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018408271

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Housing
ISBN : UOM:39015082106850

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Housing Act of 1954 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045165474

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Housing Act of 1954 by United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee Pdf

Author : UN Millennium Project,Pietro Garau,Elliott Sclar,Gabriella Y. Carolini
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844072309

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A Home in the City by UN Millennium Project,Pietro Garau,Elliott Sclar,Gabriella Y. Carolini Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136554759

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The Challenge of Slums by United Nations Human Settlements Programme Pdf

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.

Author : Jean-Claude Bolay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030284190

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Urban Planning Against Poverty by Jean-Claude Bolay Pdf

This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, allows us to understand concretely which and how these deficiencies are translated in an African urban context. In contrast, the case of Nueve de Julio, intermediate city of 50.000 dwellers in the pampa Argentina, addresses the new forms of spatial fragmentation and social exclusion linked with agro export and crisis of the international markets. Case studies are also included for cities in Asia and Latin America. Differences and similarities between cases allow us to foresee alternative models of urban planning better adapted to tackle poverty and find efficient ways for more inclusive cities in developing and emerging countries, interacting several dimensions linked with high rates of urbanization: territorial fragmentation; environmental contamination; social disparities and exclusion, informal economy and habitat, urban governance and democracy.

Author : UN Millennium Project
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136550768

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UN Millennium Development Library: A Home in The City by UN Millennium Project Pdf

More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world. A Home in the City urges countries to strengthen their focus on the growing urban crisis and improving the lives of slum dwellers. Proposed are specific investments and policy changes required at local and national levels to create a vibrant, equitable and productive urban environment. It underscores the need for close strategic partnerships between local authorities and organizations of the urban poor for slum upgrading and improved urban management. From adopting citywide strategies and establishing adequate and affordable infrastructure and services, to building effective public transport and constructing low-income housing, it offers valuable methods to prevent future slum formation and to improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.