Essays about: "slum"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 95 essays containing the word slum.
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16. Vulnerability among children and youth in São Paulo. : A qualitative study of children living in a slum area, an occupied building and on the streets.
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HHJ, Avd. för socialt arbeteAbstract : Children living in vulnerability as living on the street has been a well discussed issue for a long time. The importance of addressing the factors of why children are living in vulnerability along with what concrete actions that can be taken to help these children to a safer life have formed the ground for this study. READ MORE
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17. WasteLess Musings- A sensitive approach to Urban Renewal in Chennai, India
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljöAbstract : The city of Chennai evolved around the river, Cooum. The river supports irrigation to agricultural fields in the north and supplies water to the city of Chennai. It also acts as a major flood carrier for the city. Before the 1960s, the river was clean and used for activities such as bathing, boating and fishing. READ MORE
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18. Fire Risk and Vulnerability in Urban Informal Settlements in Metro Manila
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : 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
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19. Slum at the center : participation and radical planning in Villa 31, Central Buenos Aires
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : Citizen participation has as a planning strategy, become increasingly enveloped and is today often described as a way to deepen democracy. At the same time, there is reason to question this rhetoric as many researchers argue that these strategies does not live up to what they promise. READ MORE
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20. Puzzle pavement : a competition project for better streetscapes in unpaved informal settlements
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The developing world’s population is becoming more and more urbanized in a very rapid pace. The urbanization combined with a too normative city planning and use of inefficient approaches from governments has in many cases led to the formation of informal settlements, where 860 million people lived in the year of 2013. READ MORE
