Essays about: "urban slum areas"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 25 essays containing the words urban slum areas.

  1. 21. 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. 22. From Slum to Adequate Shelter - A Study on Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor in Manila, Philippines

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Högskoleingenjörsutbildning i byggteknik med arkitektur

    Author : Eva Mörnhed; Maria Gehander; [2008]
    Keywords : baseco; the philippines; manila; low-cost housing; urban poverty; slum; housing project; habitat for humanity; gawad kalinga.; Building construction; Byggnadsteknik; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : This report is about the housing situation in Manila, capital of the Philippines. 25% of the inhabitants in this mega city live in informal settlements, often on places unsuitable for living. The target area of this paper is Baseco, a large slum area near the outlet of Pasig River and home to 47 000 people according to the 2002 census. READ MORE

  4. 23. 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

  5. 24. Slum Areas and Insecure Tenure in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa : A Conceptual Review of African Best Practices

    University essay from Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning

    Author : Tania Berger; [2006]
    Keywords : secure tenure; urban slum areas; best practices; Millennium Development Goal; UN-HABITAT; Sub-Saharan Africa;

    Abstract : Urbanisation processes in developing countries are resulting in a rapidly increasing proportion of habitants living in urban slum areas. In the international development debate the lack of tenure security for slum dwellers in developing countries is considered to be an essentially important problem. READ MORE

  6. 25. 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