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  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. The means and positive outcomes of affordablesolar-powered public lightingin the informal settlement of Kibera, Kenya

    University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

    Author : Viktorija Misiunaite; [2017]
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    Abstract : We live in a time of a relentless change.Technology allows us to connect to each other beingmiles away, and even though we all come fromdifferent cultures with distinctive mentalities, one thingaffects us all - the inevitability of change.Everything changes constantly - the way of life, ideas,climate, you name it. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sidi Moumen, from terror slum to open city

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för fysisk planering

    Author : Karolina Gustavsson; Jennie Luthander; [2014]
    Keywords : mass housing; social housing; slum upgrading; urban revitalization; urban renewal; sustainable urban design; spatial planning; urban planning; radicant design;

    Abstract : Due to rural – urban migration, mass housing has become an inevitable part in the development of cities but mass housing today does not conform to the norms of sustainable urbanism. Most mass housing areas are socially isolated, culturally inappropriate and environmentally unsustainable. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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