Indicators for Measuring Spatial Justice and Land Tenure Security for Poor and Low Income Urban Dwellers

Secure Tenure for the Urban Poor

Whilst this target will hopefully be achieved, we should not overlook the fact that an estimated 837 million people are presently living in slums and that this is expected to double within 25 years. This suggests that the total number of people living in slums by 2020 will be about 1500 million, so a reduction of 100 million is modest by any definition. It also suggests that an equal or even gr...

Disputing security of land tenure in low-income housing settlements in Brazil

[email protected] www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca fax 416 978-7162 The rapid urbanization process of developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s has intensified pressures on the use of resources at rates that demanded alternative solutions beyond local capacities. For example, the number of jobs that needed to be created to accommodate the unskilled migrants was a task that proved to b...

Security of Land Tenure Today

Using Urban Mixed Land use Measuring Indices And Spatial Statistics Techniques In Urban Sustainable Development Planning (Case Study: Ardabil City)

Introduction: Land use mixing is one of the essential components of the urban landscape in the sustainable development of urban areas and diversity of land uses. The location of urban land-uses has a significant impact on the quality of life and efficiency of services related to different land uses. Mixed land use enables residential, work, shopping, and public services adjacent to each other a...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...