Essays about: "informal housing market"

Showing result 11 - 12 of 12 essays containing the words informal housing market.

1. 11. Participatory Urban Upgrading : The Case of Ezbet Bekhit, Cairo, Egypt

   University essay from KTH/Infrastruktur

   Author : Zeinab Noureddine Tag-Eldeen; [2003]
   Keywords : Informal settlement; Low-income Housing; Urban Upgrading; Community Participation; Project Evaluation; Participatory Program Evaluation; Action Planning; German-Egyptian Cooperation; Egypt; Cairo;

   Abstract : As a mega-city and the most populated city in Africa, Cairo is characterised by a high birth rate, escalating rural-urban migration and where the socio-economic services are centralized and overwhelmed, these generally poor migrants have no choice other than to create and develop their own informal shelter in the outer city areas that lay farthest from the reach of the authorities and from where they then search for better job opportunities. The expansion of these slum areas places an extra burden on the already deteriorated natural and unplanned urban environments. READ MORE

3. 12. Zone 19 : revitalization of public space in La Florida, Guatemala City

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planering och byggteknik

   Author : Lina Olsson; [2002]
   Keywords : Guatemala City; Guatemala; Public space; Revitalization; Spatial Planning; Third World; MFS;

   Abstract : This diploma work concerns revitalization of public space in zone 19, La Florida, in Guatemala City. The main objective of the study was to develop planning and design proposals as well as implementation strategies that aim at gaining more public open space and revitalizing existing public open space, in a way that will define and emphasize La Florida?s identity. READ MORE