Informal Settlements and Migrant Challenges in Yangon

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

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Informal International Border Crossing, Refugee and Illegal Migrant Workers: Issue in Travel Medicine

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...

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...