This paper describes how the NGO Shelter Associates and an organization of women and men slum dwellers worked together to collect information on each household in slum settlements in Pune and Sangli and to map this, along with infrastructure and service provision and each slum’s position within the city. This permitted data on slums to be superimposed on these cities’ development plans using a ...

BACKGROUND In 2014, over half (54%) of the world's population lived in urban areas and this proportion will increase to 66% by 2050. This urbanizing trend has been accompanied by an increasing number of people living in urban poor communities and slums. Lower immunization coverage is found in poorer urban dwellers in many contexts. This study aims to identify factors associated with immunizatio...

Tourism has been in the spotlight recently, especially urban slum areas. Many studies have reviewed However, transforming slums into creative tourism villages or kampungs is a new phenomenon that emerged Indonesia. Creative kampung, particular, form of changes area tourist destination. This study aims to explore extent kampung's sustainability and role stakeholders ensuring this village. employ...

Slums are populated poor areas inside urban centers, mostly deprived of good-quality public services and exposed to inappropriate waste disposal energy poverty. Using the organic fraction from these communities generate high value-added products, including electricity, heat, fertilizer, provides a circular bioeconomy with mitigation greenhouse gas emissions, reducing environmental pollution dis...

The management of slum areas in Ciamis Regency is still not running effectively to support the achievement sustainable, healthy, and livable settlement objectives based on social value, economic environmental value. This study was done look at how are managed Regency. In-depth interviews, field research, literature analysis were used as part qualitative research methodology. Techniques for data...

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...

The Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) Examination is a brief screening measure for mild neurocognitive disorder developed for use with veterans. To date, there has been a paucity of research on its psychometric properties. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the SLUMS in a referred sample to a specialty clinic. Using a sample of 148 male veterans r...

Tujuan dari penelitian ini ialah untuk menganalisis tingkat kekumuhan, mengetahui faktor-faktor determinan dan merumuskan strategi pencegahan peningkatan kualitas permukiman di Kawasan Cimpu, Kecamatan Suli, Kabupaten Luwu. Jenis merupakan mix method. Untuk kekumuhan Luwu menggunakan analisis skoring baseline, faktor yang menyebabkan digunakan Regresi Linear Berganda pengaruh kekumuhan. Kesimpu...

In 2010, an estimated 860 million people were living in slums worldwide, with around 60 million added to the slum population between 2000 and 2010. In 2011, 200 million people in urban Indian households were considered to live in slums. In order to address and create slum development programmes and poverty alleviation methods, it is necessary to understand the needs of these communities. Theref...

For a fast growing economy like India where most of its cities experiencing consistently increase in urban population, the future welfare of city residents is heavily relied on providing better living conditions and health prospects to the urban dwellers particularly to those who are living in miserable and unhygienic environment. The paper derived slum condition index (Slum CI) of notified and...