20 Dwelling Large-Scale Experiment of Fire Spread in Informal Settlements

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

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...

Improved Methods for Fire Risk Assessment in Low-Income and Informal Settlements

Fires cause over 300,000 deaths annually worldwide and leave millions more with permanent injuries: some 95% of these deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. Burn injury risk is strongly associated with low-income and informal (or slum) settlements, which are growing rapidly in an urbanising world. Fire policy and mitigation strategies in poorer countries are constrained by inadequate d...

resilience in informal settlements

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Visualisation of Settlements Over Large Changes In Scale

This paper explores the application of map generalisation techniques in the creation of small scale mapping (1:250,000) directly from large scale data (1:1250 and 1:2500). Small scale mapping provides a synoptic overview. At 1:250,000 scale, it is not that there is less information contained in the map, rather that we see fundamentally different information and relationships – broad-brush infor...