Politics/matter: Governing Cape Town’s informal settlements

Land Use Regression Modeling of Outdoor Noise Exposure in Informal Settlements in Western Cape, South Africa

In low- and middle-income countries, noise exposure and its negative health effects have been little explored. The present study aimed to assess the noise exposure situation in adults living in informal settings in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. We conducted continuous one-week outdoor noise measurements at 134 homes in four different areas. These data were used to develop a land use ...

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

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...

resilience in informal settlements

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The obstacles of cultural development in kerman city informal settlements

The subject of this research is the obstacles of social development of informal settlements in kerman city. The problem of this research is social underdevelopment of informal settlements in kerman city. The study of population of this research was four informal settlements of shahrake pedar, shahrake sanati, shahrake Sayyad Shirazi and shahrake poshte bande mamlekat. the method of doing this r...