Slum Housing: A Functional Analysis

Baltimore's slum housing clinic.

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Building for the future: influence of housing on intelligence quotients of children in an urban slum.

INTRODUCTION Interventions on behalf of the marginalized in society can assume many formats. In an urban slum the Government of Delhi built one-room houses for some of the residents in what is termed a 'plot area'. Not all residents could be accommodated in the project and the remainder continued to live next door in shanty houses of the slum. Nineteen years later, young children who had migrat...

Sociocultural Identity in TEFL Textbooks: A Systemic Functional ‎Analysis

This study aimed at investigating shades of identity in TEFL textbooks. Most identity studies have focused on authors as knowledge producers. They have neglected authors' roles in constructing identity. Further, few scholars have considered disciplinary specific textbooks in their analyses of identity. Trying to bridge these gaps, we applied Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to investi...

Office of Trade and Labor Affairs Contract Research Program Isolation or Opportunity? Experimental Analysis of a Housing Program for Urban Slum Dwellers in India *

How does giving the urban poor an opportunity to relocate to higher quality but more remote housing influence their well-being in the long run? Slum relocation programs, which move slum dwellers from the city center to the periphery, are widely used, however relatively little is known about their effect. In this paper, we evaluate the long-run impact of a housing program in a large Indian city ...