Essays about: "favelas"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the word favelas.

  1. 6. Fire Risk and Vulnerability in Urban Informal Settlements in Metro Manila

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Darlene Rini; [2018]
    Keywords : Urban fire risks; informal settlement fires; urban fire risk management; GIS; URDI; urban disasters; risk indexing; fire statistics; Metro Manila; Quezon City; Science General;

    Abstract : Urban fires, particularly in informal settlements in rapidly urbanizing cities in the developing world, are an “everyday disaster” that oftentimes goes unnoticed or under-served in the face of disturbances of the more “lethal reputation”. These disturbances of normal existence are arguably the most debilitating to vulnerable communities and sustainable development, and yet get little attention in disaster literature or in practice. READ MORE

  3. 7. Slum+City - Re-connecting Mumbai through street-led slum redevelopment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Jonna Ekholm; [2016]
    Keywords : Slum redevelopment; Dharavi; Mumbai; community led redevelopment; urban strategy; urban design; India; informality; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Slums are not sustainable, not healthy nor worthy places to live. But forcing the poor people out of the cities is equally unsustainable. In cities all over the world - in slums, favelas and shanty towns – the poor has started solving their housing problems in self built neighborhoods. READ MORE

  4. 8. Philosophical perspectives on sustainable development with a focus on the urban poor

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Anna Bäcklund; [2014]
    Keywords : favelas; the urban poor; sustainable development; slum upgrading;

    Abstract : The study discusses sustainable development related to the urban poor in informal settlements. It includes also a case study of how the Municipality of Taboão da Serra, a city in the periphery area to SaoPaulo, work for upgrading the favelas. READ MORE

  5. 9. “A Dagger Through the Skull and Nothing to the Wallet“

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Fredrik Hahn; [2012]
    Keywords : squatter society; Rio de Janeiro; Social contract; civil- military relations; private monopoly of violence; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : “A dagger through the skull and nothing to the wallet“ is a common expression for the situation in the squatter societies of Rio de Janeiro. It is used equally amongst the residents of the slums or “favelas” as they are called, as well as used by the recently implemented pacifying police force that work there. READ MORE

  6. 10. People as a Problem : A discourse analysis of the Favela residents´portrayal in Rio de Janeiro´s press

    University essay from Latinamerika-institutet

    Author : Susanna Kaukonen; [2012]
    Keywords : Brazil; Rio de Janeiro; local press; discourse analysis; Favela;

    Abstract : Many Latin American countries have during the past decades experienced an increase in violence (Howard et al 2007:716). The expansion of youth gangs and drug cartels in many countries of the region, and the states policy to fight these groups with a strong fist, has created a situation bearing the characteristics of an un-proclaimed civil war, that has come to affect all social classes (ibid:719). READ MORE