Demanding Development

Demanding Development

Author: Adam Michael Auerbach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1108491936

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Explains the uneven success of India's slum dwellers in demanding and securing essential public services from the state.


Holding Their Ground

Holding Their Ground

Author: Alain Durand-Lasserve

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1136564136

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Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book presents and analyzes the main conclusions of a comparative research programme on land tenure issues. It looks at how solutions can be found and implemented to respond to the demands and needs of the majority of squatters and informal settlements, and analyzes how urban stakeholders, with different social, legal and economic constraints, find innovative and flexible solutions. The book is intended to fill a gap in the literature on comparative research on tenure policies and should be useful to researchers and professionals involved in defining and instigating tenure upgrading policies and programmes.


Accessions List, South Asia

Accessions List, South Asia

Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 890

ISBN-13:

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Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.


Sustainable Human Settlements

Sustainable Human Settlements

Author: Ranvinder Singh Sandhu

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13:

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"Sustainability of human settlements has become a matter of global concern. This volume comprises papers presented by researchers, academicians, city planners, administrators, politicians and NGOs from countries like Australia, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Japan, the Netherlands and India at the international conference on habitat agenda and human settlements in south and southeast Asia in the 21st century. It consists of five sections dealing with planning for sustainable urban settlements, urban poverty, social segregation, gender in human settlements and the migration and human settlements. The analysis so presented shall go a long way to facilitate the custodians of human settlements for preparing themselves to face the challenges of the new millennium."


Planning Sustainable Cities

Planning Sustainable Cities

Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781844078998

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This publication reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and aging, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality. It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes.--Publisher's description


Housing and Income in Third World Urban Development

Housing and Income in Third World Urban Development

Author: Mulkh Raj

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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In most Third World countries, the informal sector constitutes a significant component of the urban economy, contributing various types of supportive services and productive activities. Yet linkages between urban housing, income-generating activities, employment and income flows in low income communities are not well understood and are seldom incorporated in the human settlement policies and projects.


Urban Poverty in India

Urban Poverty in India

Author: M. D. Asthana

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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Contributed articles compiled from Social Change, a quarterly journal brought out by Council for Social Development; special issue on Urban poverty in India vol. 30 numbers 1-2, March-June, 2000.


Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change

Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change

Author: Astrid Ley

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2020-10-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3839449421

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The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal »enabling« ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book. With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat).