Slum Upgrading And Participation

Author : Ivo Imparato,Jeff Ruster
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821353705

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Slum Upgrading and Participation by Ivo Imparato,Jeff Ruster Pdf

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.

Author : Vandana Desai
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034516032

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Community Participation and Slum Housing by Vandana Desai Pdf

The study explores the nature of community participation in a Bombay housing project and analyzes the concepts of influence and power in community participation, focusing on the impact of community mobilization on the process of slum upgrading. The study reveals that despite community organization and pro-participation rhetoric in official discourse, most slum-dwellers are excluded from decision- making. Of interest to those in sociology and development studies, and voluntary organizations and international agencies. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Fernanda Magalhães (City planner)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Slums
ISBN : 1597821632

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Slum Upgrading by Fernanda Magalhães (City planner) Pdf

Author : Basab Dasgupta,Somik V. Lall
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Quality of life
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Assessing Benefits of Slum Upgrading Programs in Second-best Settings by Basab Dasgupta,Somik V. Lall Pdf

"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.

Author : El-hadj M. Bah,Issa Faye,Zekebweliwai F. Geh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137597922

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Housing Market Dynamics in Africa by El-hadj M. Bah,Issa Faye,Zekebweliwai F. Geh Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCBK:C112081837

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Streets as Tools for Urban Transformation in Slums by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Un-Habitat
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Public safety
ISBN : UCBK:C083539152

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Building Urban Safety Through Slum Upgrading by Anonim Pdf

"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.

Author : Fernanda Magalhães
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597821568

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Slum Upgrading by Fernanda Magalhães Pdf

The main goal of this book is to disseminate the useful lessons learned from urban development and favela urbanization operations in Brazil financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Brazilian government. These lessons underpin the recommendations for the design of public policies on the subject. It is hoped that they will also contribute to improving the efficiency of specific programs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789211318630

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Situation Analysis of Slum Settlements in Addis Ababa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vinit Mukhija
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351898423

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Squatters as Developers? by Vinit Mukhija Pdf

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). Based on demolishing existing slums and rebuilding on the same sites at a higher density, it is very distinct from the two prevalent conventional strategies with respect to slums in developing countries - slum clearance and slum upgrading. So why did the slum redevelopment strategy originate in Mumbai, and how did it do so? What were the key issues in the implementation of such a project? This critical volume responds to these questions by closely examining one particular redevelopment project over a period of twelve years: the Markandeya Cooperative Housing Society (MCHS). It analyzes the problems faced and the solutions innovated; identifies non-traditional issues often overlooked in housing improvement strategies; reveals the complexities involved in housing production for low-income groups; and combines in-depth empirical research with historical, institutional, spatial and financial perspectives to improve our understanding of complex urban development processes.

Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9789211318418

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

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.

Author : Pranab Kumar Panday
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811533327

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The Face of Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh by Pranab Kumar Panday Pdf

The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in particular, in the light of global slum upgrading initiatives. It combines the urban poverty and slum development initiatives globally and country-specific context in a single frame. The book identifies different dimensions of urban poverty, best practices of slum development initiatives, and challenges of the implementation of these programs so that the government and different development partners redesign their implementation strategies as regards to reducing the urban poverty and making improvement to the living conditions of the slum dwellers. The book provides a clear understanding of the penetrating procedures of different slum development initiatives in the global perspectives, following the operation procedure of different programs in Bangladesh. This allows the readers to make a comparison of the operating procedures of different programs.

Author : Somik V. Lall,Basab Dasgupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931673910

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Assessing Benefits of Slum Upgrading Programs in Second-Best Settings by Somik V. Lall,Basab Dasgupta Pdf

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.