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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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The challenge of slums : global report on human settlements, 2003 / / United Nations Human Settlements Programme
| The challenge of slums : global report on human settlements, 2003 / / United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Sterling, VA, : Earthscan Publications, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 310 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 307.3364 |
| Soggetto topico |
Slums
Slums - Government policy Urban poor - Housing Urban poor |
| ISBN |
9781849772907 (e-book)
9781844070367 (hbk.) 9781844070374 (pbk.) 1-84977-290-8 1-136-55476-9 1-136-55475-0 1-280-47611-7 9786610476114 600-00-0018-9 1-4175-8331-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Developing context and the millennium agenda -- Urbanization trends and forces shaping slums -- Cities and slums within globalizing economies -- Social dimensions -- Territoriality and spatial forms -- Economic dynamics -- New policy developments at the national and global levels -- Civil society in action -- Towards inclusive cities : reconsidering development priorities. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827302103321 |
| London ; ; Sterling, VA, : Earthscan Publications, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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