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1. 6. Love-marriage and kin-support in India: Ten women's experiences of negative sanctions for entering into a love-marriage.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

   Author : Kaisa Nylin; [2013]
   Keywords : Welfare regime theory.; India; Kin-support; Love-marriage; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine ten women's experiences of negative sanctions for entering into a love-marriage, especially the negative sanction of reduced kin-support, and in which way this can be perceived to be of significance when it comes to women's capability to manage the challenges experienced in married life. This has been done by applying a qualitative research strategy and conducting semi-structured interviews with ten women living in one slum area of Bangalore. READ MORE

3. 7. Urban reneval process in Turkey : - General overview, economic and social analysis

   University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

   Author : Özgür Korkmaz; [2013]
   Keywords : Urban renewal; Turkish cases; squatter neighborhoods; policies;

   Abstract : Turkish metropolises suffer poor infrastructure systems and weak structures due to unplanned urbanization as a result of migration waves from rural to urban. Slum clearance was a necessity to provide safe and quality life in the metropolises. READ MORE

4. 8. Streetscapes: behind the scenes : perspectives of streets as place in a slum setting, and how local concepts of place are affected by political and global development interests

   University essay from SLU/Landscape Architecture (until 121231)

   Author : Marlene Thelandersson; Maria Höök; Pia Jonsson; Emma Skottke; [2012]
   Keywords : Streets; place; public space; life-world; system-world; planning processes; informality; slum upgrading; urbanization; spatial representation; Nairobi; Korogocho; Kenya; UN-Habitat;

   Abstract : Planning processes are often disconnected from the experienced place on the ground. Ideologies of space, developing agendas, time constraints and budgets serve to limit the understanding of the lived world of those dwelling in an area and stand at risk to reduce it to the abstract space of maps. READ MORE

5. 9. Influence of Urban Form on Co-presence in Public Space : A Space Syntax Analysis of Informal Settlements in Pune, India

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : Joel Hernbäck; [2012]
   Keywords : Urban form; space syntax; public space; informal settlements; slum; unplanned built environment; gender.;

   Abstract : This master thesis is intended as a contribution to the understanding of the influence urban form has on urban life and by extension social structures in society, by focusing on gender relations and their reflections on the use of public space. In addition, the aim of the study is to do so in relation to a comparison between two different types of urban environments; one slum area that can be regarded as formally unplanned with an irregular gradually grown street network and one slum area of more deliberately planned character with a more regular street grid. READ MORE

6. 10. Sustainable Housing in Navotas, the Philippines - A Minor Field Study on Low-income Housing in Disaster Prone Areas

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Högskoleingenjörsutbildning i byggteknik med arkitektur

   Author : Sophia Truong; Lina Olofsson; [2008]
   Keywords : the philippines; sanagmana; ngo; housing development; low-income households; Building construction; Byggnadsteknik; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : The study is about the housing situation of the urban poor in Navotas in Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is a field study carried out in Manila, a city with 13 million inhabitants, where people live in an already congested area and at the same time people from the provinces move there to pursue jobs and the promise of a better life. READ MORE