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The Challenge of Slums [[electronic resource] ] : Global Report on Human Settlements 2003
| The Challenge of Slums [[electronic resource] ] : Global Report on Human Settlements 2003 |
| Autore | United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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. |
| ISBN |
9786610476114
600-00-0018-9 1-4175-8331-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450368503321 |
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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| Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros
| Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros |
| Autore | Freire-Medeiros Bianca |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.3/364 |
| Collana | Routledge advances in sociology |
| Soggetto topico |
Slums
Tourism - Moral and ethical aspects Tourism - Social aspects Poverty |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-203-84071-2
1-283-87199-8 1-136-89352-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Attraction to poverty, poverty as attraction -- pt. II. Producing, circulating and consuming the touristic favela. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453049303321 |
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Freire-Medeiros Bianca
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros
| Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros |
| Autore | Freire-Medeiros Bianca |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.3/364 |
| Collana | Routledge advances in sociology |
| Soggetto topico |
Slums
Tourism - Moral and ethical aspects Tourism - Social aspects Poverty |
| ISBN |
1-136-89351-2
0-203-84071-2 1-283-87199-8 1-136-89352-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Attraction to poverty, poverty as attraction -- pt. II. Producing, circulating and consuming the touristic favela. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779452903321 |
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Freire-Medeiros Bianca
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros
| Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros |
| Autore | Freire-Medeiros Bianca |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.3/364 |
| Collana | Routledge advances in sociology |
| Soggetto topico |
Slums
Tourism - Moral and ethical aspects Tourism - Social aspects Poverty |
| ISBN |
1-136-89351-2
0-203-84071-2 1-283-87199-8 1-136-89352-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Attraction to poverty, poverty as attraction -- pt. II. Producing, circulating and consuming the touristic favela. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910962122203321 |
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Freire-Medeiros Bianca
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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