The Challenge of Slums [[electronic resource] ] : Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

• Autore: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.3/364; 307.3364
• Soggetto topico: Slums; Slums - Case studies; Slums -- Case studies; Slums - Government policy; Slums -- Government policy; Urban poor - Housing; Urban poor -- Housing; Urban poor - Statistics; Urban poor -- Statistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: THE CHALLENGE OF SLUMS GLOBAL REPORT ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS 2003; Copyright; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; Capacity building, research activities and knowledge exchange; Explanation of Symbols; Regional-Level Data; List of Figures, Boxes and Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Key Findings and Messages; Prologue: Urban Growth and Housing; Population Explosion and Urban Expansion; Accommodating Growth; The Focus of this Report; Notes; PART I: SHARPENING THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA; CHAPTER 1 Development Context and the Millennium Agenda; Cities Without Slums? ; The failure of governanceInstitutional and legal failure; The Millennium Development Agenda; Understanding Slums; The notion of slums; Defining and measuring slums; Characteristics of slums; Lack of basic services; Substandard housing or illegal and inadequate building structures; Overcrowding and high density; Unhealthy living conditions and hazardous locations; Insecure tenure; irregular or informal settlements; Poverty and social exclusion; Minimum settlement size; Operational definition of slums; Number of slum dwellers: assessments and estimations; Trends in numbers of slum dwellers ; NotesCHAPTER 2 Urbanization Trends and Forces Shaping Slums; Socio-Economic Inequality; Spatial organization and residential differentiation; The ecological school and the neo-classical model; Factorial ecology; Measuring spatial inequality and separation; Spatial concentration of poverty; Urban form and disadvantage; Mosaic post-modern cities in the developing world; Measuring urban development and disadvantage; Challenges to Sustainable Urbanization; Demographic changes and slum formation; Urban growth; Rural-urban migration; International migration; Declining areas and depopulation ; PovertyPoverty and slums; Defining poverty; Measurement of poverty incidence; Targeting of poverty reduction programmes; Notes; CHAPTER 3 Cities and Slums within Globalizing Economies; Inequality and Poverty; Inequality: a recent history; Globalization: poverty amid affluence; Trade, globalization and cities; Trade theory and inequality; Trade: the reality; Finance, information and economic volatility; Labour markets under free trade regimes; Africa: economic stagnation in a globalizing world; The Retreat of the State; Privatization of utilities; Structural adjustment, cities and poverty ; The Local and the GlobalInsecurity and the diffusion of the local; Subsidiarity and the weakening of national governments; Transurban cooperation and integration: towards new urban economies; Slums and globalization; Looking ahead; Notes; PART II: ASSESSING SLUMS IN THE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT; CHAPTER 4 Social Dimensions; Historical Context and Evolution of Social Stratification Patterns; Views on inner-city slums; Slums and urbanization; Slums and capitalism; Slums and reformism; Are slums inevitable?; Social diversity of contemporary slums; Social Attributes and Functions of Slums ; Accommodation of low-cost labour
• Sommario/riassunto: The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades.From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion
• Titolo autorizzato: The Challenge of Slums
• ISBN: 9786610476114; 600-00-0018-9; 1-4175-8331-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450368503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II