The Challenge Of Slums

Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Slums
ISBN : OCLC:1083586133

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The Challenge of Slums by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781683682

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Planet of Slums by Mike Davis Pdf

According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, and even from economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development, and asks whether the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, are volcanoes waiting to erupt.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Human settlements
ISBN : PSU:000056665291

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Global Report on Human Settlements by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1844070379

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The challenge of slums by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780238876

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Slums by Alan Mayne Pdf

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.

Author : Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781908979605

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Megacity Slums by Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky Pdf

This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues. The challenges posed in Delhi, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Suo Paulo have spurred public reformers into action through housing, rehabilitation and conservation programs. Civil society and the inhabitants of these cities have also begun to get involved. On the other hand, one must wonder whether these challenges were partly created by the deficiencies of these very reformers and civil society, be it their lack of intervention (as advocates of government intervention would argue), or the flaws and inadequacies of their actions (as supporters of the free market would suggest). Are policies alleviating or aggravating social exclusion This book explores these questions and more.

Author : Richard T. LeGates,Frederic Stout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135264130

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The City Reader by Richard T. LeGates,Frederic Stout Pdf

The fifth edition of the highly successful City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new contributions by experts including Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry, Daphne Spain, Nigel Taylor, Samuel Bass Warner, and others – some of which have been newly written exclusively for The City Reader. Classic writings from Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Louis Wirth, meet the best contemporary writings of Sir Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Kenneth Jackson. This edition of The City Reader has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as sustainable urban development, climate change, globalization, and the impact of technology on cities. The plate sections have been extensively revised and expanded and a new plate section on global cities has been added. The anthology features general and section introductions and introductions to the selected articles. New to the fifth edition is a bibliography listing over 100 of the top books for those studying Cities.

Author : Jason Corburn,Lee Riley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520281073

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Slum Health by Jason Corburn,Lee Riley Pdf

Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are 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. Slum Health exposes 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 “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

Author : Christine Auclair
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9789211317145

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Urbanization Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa by Christine Auclair Pdf

Author : Dr.Padmini S.V.
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789390996193

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF SLUM DWELLERS IN KARNATAKA - A CASE STUDY IN TUMKUR DISTRICT by Dr.Padmini S.V. Pdf

Author : Igor Krstic
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474406871

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Slums on Screen by Igor Krstic Pdf

Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predeccesors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.

Author : Igor Krstic
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474406888

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Slums on Screen by Igor Krstic Pdf

Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predeccesors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.

Author : Doctor Edgar Pieterse
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136274

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City Futures by Doctor Edgar Pieterse Pdf

Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented. This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to deal with these challenges. Pieterse argues that the current 'shelter for all' and 'urban good governance' policies treat only the symptoms, not the causes of the problem. Instead, he claims, there is an urgent need to reinvigorate civil society in these cities, to encourage radical democracy, economic resilience, social resistance and environmental sustainability folded into the everyday concerns of marginalised people. Providing a dynamic picture of a cosmopolitan urban citizenship, this book is an essential guide to one of the new century's greatest challenges.

Author : Mark R. Montgomery,Richard Stren,Barney Cohen,Holly E. Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134031733

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Cities Transformed by Mark R. Montgomery,Richard Stren,Barney Cohen,Holly E. Reed Pdf

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.