This study analyzed environmental health risks and people’s perceptions of risks related to waste management in poor settlements of Abidjan, to develop integrated solutions for health and well-being improvement. The trans-disciplinary approach used relied on remote sensing, a geographic information system (GIS), qualitative and quantitative methods such as interviews and a household survey (n=1...

During the 1950s the informal settlements of Cato Manor housed a population of approximately 150 000 people. Following the promulgation of the Group Areas Act in 1955, the entire population was resettled to formal townships on the metropolitan fringe. Despite being one of the most accessible areas in the Durban metropolitan region, only five kms from the city centre, this 2000 ha site remained ...

India is home to 472 million children under the age of 0-18 years, comprising 39% of the country’s total population. Out of the 128.5 million children residing in urban areas, close to 7.8 million children under the age of 0-6 years still live in abject poverty and poor conditions in informal settlements, making it imperative that we plan and build sustainable and inclusive cities from their pe...

More than half of the urban population Sub-Saharan Africa lives in informal housing conditions. While areas are, general, characterized by a high electrification rate, residents settlements are still affected energy poverty, use traditional sources and unreliable electricity supply. The aim study is to give an overview different renewable-energy-based solutions which able improve local provisio...

Informal settlements in developing countries have attracted widespread attention, and existing research is mainly concerned with the causes evolution of informal settlements. However, few studies focused on investigating spatial governance strategies order to understand context institutional arrangements. The aim this develop a framework for explain their causes. finds that China are influenced...

This article challenges the narrow definition of informal settlements as solely lacking a formal framework, which overlooks dynamic city-making and urban design processes within these areas. Communities’ self-building areas’ constant growth are indeed settlements’ most salient morphological features. The study builds upon development stages (IDS) framework explores how it applies globally. rese...

Informal real estate markets have developed as a result of deficiencies formal and play crucial role in providing housing to the urban poor. This contribution combines an adaptation Ostrom's rules with property rights theory study that informal estate, their spatial impact implications formal-informal interactions settlement Nairobi, Kenya. It is argued although nature regimes highly similar, c...

Maya and Aztec cities exhibited a distinctive kind of low-density urbanism common in ancient Mesoamerica. The non-monumental components of these cities differed from the high-density ancient and historical cities in the Old World that are often considered the norm for pre-modern urbanism. Distinctive features include the practice of intensive agricultural cultivation within urban settlements, r...

The nexus of urban poverty and sustainable development is complex. The urban poor reside in often deplorable conditions, which in some instances are worse than those in the rural areas that so many of them left behind (Brockerhoff and Brennan 1997). Women’s status, youth issues, and reproductive health concerns all take on a different complexion in the context of urban slums and informal settle...

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...