From Informal Settlements to sustainable communities

Challenges to Achieving Sustainable Sanitation in Informal Settlements of Kigali, Rwanda

Like most cities in developing countries, Kigali is experiencing rapid urbanisation leading to an increase in the urban population and rapid growth in the size and number of informal settlements. More than 60% of the city's population resides in these settlements, where they experience inadequate and poor quality urban services including sanitation. This article discusses the issues and constra...

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

Formalizing the Informal: Understanding the Position of Informal Settlements and Slums in Sustainable Urbanization Policies and Strategies in Bandung, Indonesia

Sustainable urbanization policies and strategies are posited as a major tool by which to achieve the sustainable development of growing towns and cities. A major challenge for sustainable urbanization policies and strategies is how to address the complexity of urbanization, especially the ongoing growth of informal settlements and slums in developing countries. It is acknowledged that those liv...

Informal Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development Case Study: Metropolis of Mashhad in Northeastern of Iran

One of the fundamental social and economic characteristics of the southern countries is the lack of development of spatial planning system whose symptom is the irregular expansion of urban settlements. Due to the ecological traits and national policy-making manner, this expansion has caused the centralization of regional metropolises in these countries. In the geographical spaces of Iran, speci...

Image-Based Reconstruction of Informal Settlements

The improvement of living conditions in informal settlements (IS) is one of the most complex and pressing challenges facing developing countries. In this paper we report on progress towards the automated generation of geospatial databases of informal settlements from large scale, low cost, digital still-video imagery. We focus on shack extraction as the predominant data requirement. In contrast...