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The challenge of slums
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ISBN: 9786610476114 6000000189 1417583312 9781849772907 1849772908 9781136554766 1136554769 9781417583317 661047611X 1844070360 9781844070367 9781844070374 9781844070367 1844070379 1844070360 9781136554711 9781136554759 1136554750 1280476117 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Sterling, VA Earthscan Publications

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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. TheGlobal 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.


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La déliaison : Harlem, Youssef, Ylmaz et les autres : la politique de la ville en question ?
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ISBN: 2747511731 9782747511735 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris : Harmattan,


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Un monde de bidonvilles : migrations et urbanisme informel
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ISSN: 16369440 ISBN: 9782021366488 2021366480 Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris : Seuil,

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"La dynamique planétaire d'urbanisation passe par l'extension des bidonvilles dans les pays en développement. C'est un huitième de l'humanité qui vit aujourd'hui dans ces espaces. Parallèlement, le retour des bidonvilles et des campements illégaux en France suscite inquiétude, voire alarmisme, sur fond de " crise des migrants ". Pour certains, les bidonvilles doivent être éradiqués comme des foyers d'insalubrité et de criminalité. Pour d'autres, ils constituent un laboratoire de la ville durable, à la fois piétonne, écologique, participative et recyclable. Et si les bidonvilles, au lieu de renvoyer uniquement à un passé effrayant, inventaient aussi des solutions pour l'avenir ?" [4e de couverture]

Habitat et environnement urbain au Viêt-nam
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ISBN: 1281974269 9786611974268 1552504417 9781552504413 9782865377800 2865377806 0889368252 2865377806 9780889368255 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris Ottawa, Canada Karthala CRDI

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This book presents the research findings of four Vietnamese institutions that, in 1992, designed a joint research project on urban poverty with the financial support of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The first objective was to identify and qualify urban poverty in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh-Ville. This found that poverty in Hanoi is widespread and not well accepted or acknowledged. On the contrary, poverty in Ho Chi Minh-Ville is concentrated on the city's canals where a ""poverty culture"" developed long ago. The researchers' most significant contribution has been their

Cities, poverties and development : Urbanization in the third world
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ISBN: 0198741618 019874160X Year: 1992 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

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Urbanization --- 911.375 <1-773> --- 364.22 --- 364.22 Armoede. Financiele problemen. Financiele nood --- Armoede. Financiele problemen. Financiele nood --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Urban settlements (their study and geography). Towns. Cities--Gebieden in ontwikkeling. Ontwikkelingslanden --- Community organization --- Regional planning --- Social conflict --- Urban poor --- City dwellers --- Poor --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life --- Housing --- Developing countries --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- Economic conditions --- Regional disparities. --- Geografie --- Sociale geografie --- Bewoning en leefgemeenschap. --- Regional disparities --- Urbanization - Developing countries. --- Rural-urban migration - Developing countries. --- Developing countries - Economic conditions - Regional disparities. --- Urban poor - Housing - Developing countries. --- Community organization - Developing countries. --- Social conflict - Developing countries. --- Regional planning - Developing countries.

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