Essays about: "slum development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 essays containing the words slum development.

1. 1. Participation as a Way for a Postcolonial Design of ICT4Ds

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Georgios Koletis; [2022]
   Keywords : C4D; ICT4Ds; design for social change; participatory design; postcolonialism; stereotypes; knowledge and identity creation; pluriverse; universalisms;

   Abstract : The ongoing digital transformation of our societies impacts all aspects of our lives aswell as the international development and the design for social change. Having said that,in this paper I studied whether the design of participatory ICT4Ds can engage the localend-users/beneficiaries in the processes of knowledge and identity creation, and thus,achieve their self-representation in order to break the colonial-based stereotypes. READ MORE

3. 2. Challenges of Community Policing and Community Safety in the slum Community of Westpoint. District Number 7, Monsterrado County, Liberia : None

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kriminologi (KR)

   Author : Grace Akose Badu; [2022]
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   Abstract : Background: Police are most at risk, and so are the residents due to the vulnerability in the slum community of WestPoint. Despite the efforts of the government to improve community living standards by encouraging the role of Community policing in crime prevention, there is instead an increase in the crime rate and insecurity in the neighborhoods. READ MORE

4. 3. Migration into Urban Areas: a Sociological and Micro Perspective : A thematic analysis of how migration is used as a tool to gain personal development in Zambia

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Juliette Iturralde Ulfsax; [2022]
   Keywords : Push and pull factor; symbolic capital; gender display; doing gender; urbanisation; migration;

   Abstract : The pace of urbanisation in less developed regions creates consequences which cause problems such as housing, overcrowding and lack of living standards in the urban areas. A problem connected more to developing countries than developed countries that earlier went through the same process. READ MORE

5. 4. Flood Management in the Kamrangirchar Slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Olivia Emelie Kjellgren; [2021]
   Keywords : Flooding; flood management; disaster management; disaster risk reduction; disaster recovery; disaster resilience; disaster preparedness; climate change; livelihood; vulnerability; adaptation; assets; economic insecurity; infrastructure; slum; sewerage networks; sanitation; housing; sustainable development; onion-peel approach; mixed method design; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : A study on the Kamrangirchar slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh has been completed by analyzing literature involving qualitative data, as well as quantitative data using a mixed method research design. The quantitative data from the World Bank (2020) and the UNDP (2020) is provided as background for the research. READ MORE

6. 5. The Paradox of Kenyan Slum Upgrading Programme - An interpretative case study about socio-spatial exclusion in the informal settlement of Kibera

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Melina Rupprecht; [2020]
   Keywords : socio-spatial exclusion; built environment; post-colonial urban planning; structural violence; place;

   Abstract : This interpretative case study examines the ways in which socio-spatial exclusion is main-tained though urban planning designs in the informal settlement of Kibera in Kenya. It ap-plies the theoretical and analytical framework of T. Mitchell and A. Church, M. READ MORE