Land Readjustment for Regularization of Informal Settlements

Land Registration in the Context of Informal Settlements

The paper is a kind of "back to basics" response to the scepticism which disciplines with a tradition for social science approaches tend to have towards land registration in context of informal settlements. The general argument is that specific efforts are needed to improve interdiciplinary discussion. The paper suggests three ways to improve the general understanding of the importance of land ...

Land Readjustment Implementations in Turkey

One of the land development problems of developing countries is to provide readily available land for new urbanization demands. Compensation based procedures are mostly used land provision methods around the world in urban land development applications but it is both expensive and mandatory. To provide new settlements and built-up areas, there should be a more effective land redistribution proc...

Approaches to the Regularization of Informal Settlements: the Case of PRIMED in Medellín, Colombia

This paper documents and examines PRIMED, a model program for regularization of low-income settlements in the process of formation in Medellín, Colombia. Considered one of the most advanced models for intervention in these types of barrios in the country, the program includes a basic infrastructure of streets, public facilities and public space; home improvements or relocation; and legalization...

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...