Urban housing

Cities with 'slums': from informal settlement eradication to a right t…

by Huchzermeyer, Marie

0 Type: Book

"The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains …

This study examines residential growth and its quality tendency in the vicinity of different urban subcenters. The outcomes of this study are expected to assist in the development of future policies regarding spontaneous residential developments and to contribute to a better und…

The purpose of this research was to investigate the feasibility of utilizing self-help housing approaches to improve the low-income housing delivery system in Malaysia. Squatters were identified as the unit of measurement for the low-income households. Twenty-six independent var…