The challenge of slums: global report on human settlements, 2003
In: Global report on human settlements, 2003
Abstract
The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level from local to global that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion peopl.
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Themen
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
Earthscan Publications
ISBN
9781849772907, 1849772908, 9781136554766, 1136554769, 1417583312, 9781417583317, 661047611X, 9786610476114, 1844070360, 9781844070367
Seiten
xxxiv, 310
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