Majority of world population live in poverty and struggle to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, access water sanitation. Past studies indicate resources deprivation among residents informal settlements. In Africa, 43% individuals are living destitution urban territories a proportion which compares with 59% people rural areas. Due high rate traders settlements unable financial s...

Concerns regarding the impacts of climate change on marginalised communities in Global South have led to calls for affected be more active as agents process planning change. While value involving risk management is increasingly accepted, development appropriate tools support community engagement flood projects remains nascent. Using Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments Progr...

Information about the location and extent of informal settlements is necessary to guide decision making and resource allocation for their upgrading. Very high resolution (VHR) satellite images can provide this useful information, however, different urban settlement types are hard to be automatically discriminated and extracted from VHR imagery, because of their abstract semantic class definitio...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle and suburban population are important issues in the field of health. The living conditions of informal settlements can lead to acquisition of an unhealthy lifestyle. OBJECTIVE This study has been designed to investigate the articles that have been published regarding lifestyle in suburban populations. METHODS The present research was a systematic review of studies in da...

This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for women. She proceeds to raise key issues that ...

BACKGROUND Cape Town is undergoing rapid urbanization. South African vital statistics have routinely been stratified by racial categories but intra-urban and peri-urban geographical variations have been neglected. METHODS To examine variations in infant mortality rates (IMR) and proportional infant mortality between urban, rural and informally settled areas, stratified by racial category, bir...

Informal urbanism has become a widespread form of urbanisation, particularly in the context global South. While there is an emerging body knowledge focusing on morphologies informal settlements, incremental transformations settlements have remained underexplored. Drawing case study settlement Nigeria, we map emergence and transformation access networks buildings. This exploratory morphogenesis ...