This paper examines OpenStreetMap data quality at different stages of a participatory mapping process in seven slums Africa and Asia. Data were drawn from an OpenStreetMap-based developed as part research project focusing on understanding inequalities healthcare access slum residents the Global South. Descriptive statistics qualitative analysis employed to examine following question: What is sp...

Abstract The literature on the concentration of urban poverty has considered two kinds locations as pockets poverty: slums (vs. non-slums) and towns cities). Moving beyond these binaries in discussing spatial poverty, we have made an intersection residential post-reform India using four rounds data from National Sample Survey. proportion relatively poor households was lower city slum areas than...

Abstract Since the approval of Brazilian Federal Technical Assistance Law, whose objective is to guarantee adequate technical assistance residents poor areas improve their homes, several municipalities have implemented programs, not always successful, housing in slums. Aiming subsidize these programs implementation workflow, present paper analyses use drones as a tool gather information about p...