Essays about: "unplanned settlements"

Showing result 11 - 13 of 13 essays containing the words unplanned settlements.

  1. 11. Expanding Water Service Delivery through Partnership between Water Utility and Small Scale Water Providers in Lusaka, Zambia : A Case of Lusaka's Peri-Urban Areas

    University essay from Tema vatten i natur och samhälle

    Author : Yvonne Mwandu Siyeni; [2008]
    Keywords : Service provider; Water and Sanitation; Peri-Urban Areas; Commercial Utility; Partnership; Accessibility; Community Participation; Small Scale Water Provider;

    Abstract : Zambia is a highly urbanized country with 60% of its urban population residing in low cost areas also called peri-urban, slum or informal settlements. The increase in urban population attributed to rapid migration and urbanization due to political and economic changes has taken a toll on service provision as the infrastructure development and service provision has failed to meet the demand. READ MORE

  3. 12. Expanding Water Service Delivery through Partnership between Water Utility and Small Scale Water Providers in Lusaka, Zambia : A Case of Lusaka’s Peri-Urban Areas

    University essay from Tema vatten i natur och samhälle

    Author : Yvonne Mwandu Siyeni; [2008]
    Keywords : Service provider; Water and Sanitation; Peri-Urban Areas; Commercial Utility; Partnership; Accessibility; Community Participation; Small Scale Water Provider; Lusaka; Zambia;

    Abstract : Zambia is a highly urbanized country with 60% of its urban population residing in low cost areas also called peri-urban, slum or informal settlements. The increase in urban population attributed to rapid migration and urbanization due to political and economic changes has taken a toll on service provision as the infrastructure development and service provision has failed to meet the demand. READ MORE

  4. 13. 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