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Tauran, T. "Beyond the informal settlement: the land tenure situation of urban kampungs in Surabaya, Indonesia." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 916, no. 1 (2021): 012010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/916/1/012010.

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Abstract Kampung occupies a significant role in urban settlements in Indonesia. The existing studies categorise urban kampung as informal settlements. However, using evidence from urban kampungs in Surabaya, this study rejects the perspectives that simplify urban kampungs as informal settlements. This study proposes a critical feature of informal settlement as a gauge: land tenure. The findings show that urban kampungs are too complex to be represented in the informal category. Urban kampung can be inhabited by residents with various land tenure beyond formal and informal dichotomy. Most urban

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Mwamba, Jonathan Simbeya. "Analysing the Sustainability Challenges of Informal Urban Settlements: The Case of Chibolya in Lusaka Zambia." Journal of Sustainable Development 13, no. 6 (2020): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v13n6p55.

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Presently, informal settlements exist as part of the urban fabric and a major constituent of the residential geographies of most Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The growth of informal settlements in cities of the global south has been widely discussed in existing literature as a critical concern. Urban development literature in Zambia in particular has focused on the rapid urbanization and poverty growth, but barely explains how this affects settlement sustainability. Studies have focused on measures put in place by government and supporting organisations to help find solutions to the problem. B

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PASHTON, Numan, and Mohammad Qasim NOORZAI. "Assessment of Informal Settlement in Central Kandahar: A Case Study of Area Within Four Historic Gateways." Journal for Research in Applied Sciences and Biotechnology 3, no. 1 (2024): 329–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.55544/jrasb.3.1.52.

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Afghanistan's post-war recovery, commencing in 2001 following the cessation of hostilities, precipitated rapid urbanization, notably witnessed by a substantial proliferation of informal settlements, primarily concentrated in Kandahar Province. This phenomenon, exacerbated by significant rural-to-urban migration and population expansion, has emphasized the imperative for exhaustive research aimed at comprehensively understanding its definitions, associated types and potential impacts of informal settlement. The proliferation of informal settlements in Kandahar's historic gateways presents a com

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Matarira, Dadirai, Onisimo Mutanga, Maheshvari Naidu, Terence Darlington Mushore, and Marco Vizzari. "Characterizing Informal Settlement Dynamics Using Google Earth Engine and Intensity Analysis in Durban Metropolitan Area, South Africa: Linking Pattern to Process." Sustainability 15, no. 3 (2023): 2724. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15032724.

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The growing population in informal settlements expedites alterations in land use and land cover (LULC) over time. Understanding the patterns and processes of landscape transitions associated with informal settlement dynamics in rapidly urbanizing cities is critical for better understanding of consequences, especially in environmentally vulnerable areas. The study sought to map and systematically analyze informal settlement growth patterns, dynamics and processes, as well as associated LULC transitions in Durban Metropolitan area, from 2015 to 2021. The study applied an object-based image class

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El Nachar, Eman, and Doaa Abouelmagd. "The Inter/Transdisciplinary Framework for Urban Governance Intervention in the Egyptian Informal Settlements." Buildings 13, no. 2 (2023): 265. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020265.

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There is a need to understand the complex nature of informal settlements to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11: “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.” Thus, addressing the urban governance of informal settlements requires an inter/trans-disciplinary scope to reach a cross-cutting agenda that combines social/behavioral, economics, and public health with the built environment disciplines. Respectively, this paper aims to establish an integrative framework based upon a blended inter/trans-disciplinary approach of urban governance for informal settl

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Bakhaty, Asser, Ashraf M. Salama, and Branka Dimitrijević. "A Validated Framework for Characterising Informal Settlements: Two Cases from Greater Cairo, Egypt." Buildings 13, no. 5 (2023): 1263. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051263.

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There have been significant research studies on informal settlements within various disciplines including sociology, economy, politics, governance, and urbanism. However, little is known about the complexity and dynamism of informal settlements. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for understanding the multiplicity of factors influencing the formation and transformation of informal settlements. It examines and validates various intricacies characterising informal settlements in three ways. First, informal settlement characteristics and their relationships are explored. Second,

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Mudau, Naledzani, and Paidamwoyo Mhangara. "Assessment of the Ecological Condition of Informal Settlements Using the Settlement Surface Ecological Index." Land 12, no. 8 (2023): 1622. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12081622.

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To manage urban ecological ecosystems adequately, understanding the urban areas’ biophysical characteristics is required. This study developed a settlement surface ecological index (SSEI) using tree, soil, impervious surface and grass covers, land surface temperature (LST), and soil moisture derived from Satellite Pour L’Observation de la Terre (SPOT) 7 and Landsat 8 satellite images. The assessment of the SSEI was conducted over twelve sites of 300 m by 300 m. The selected sites contained formal and informal settlements of varying building densities. The SSEI values ranged from −0.3 to 0.54.

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Rezayee, Maqsood, Gabriel Hoh Teck Ling, and Siti Hajar Misnan. "Approaches to Addressing Informal Settlement Problems: A Case Study of District 13 in Kabul, Afghanistan." Engineering Management Research 9, no. 1 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/emr.v9n1p1.

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Afghanistan witnessed rapid urbanization in recent decades due to the post-war recovery process. When the war ended in 2001 with the fall of Taliban regime, most Afghan refugees returned to urban areas of Afghanistan, especially in Kabul. Moreover, the rapid urbanization, migration from rural areas, and population growth impacted Kabul with the manifestation of informal settlement. The residents of informal settlements suffer social and economic exclusion from the benefits and opportunities of an urban environment. Furthermore, the residents of informal settlements experience disadvantages suc

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Mudau, Naledzani, and Paidamwoyo Mhangara. "Investigation of Informal Settlement Indicators in a Densely Populated Area Using Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery." Sustainability 13, no. 9 (2021): 4735. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13094735.

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Automation of informal settlements detection using satellite imagery remains a challenging task in urban remote sensing. This is due to the fact that informal settlements vary in shape, size and spatial arrangement from one region to the other in some cases within a city. This paper investigated the methodology to detect informal settlements in a densely populated township by assessing informal settlement indicators observed from very high spatial resolution satellite imagery. We assessed twelve informal settlement indicators to determine the most effective indicators to distinguish between in

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Fakhrullah, Sarwari, Ono Hiroko, and Reza Ansari Mohammad. "A Twin Track Approach for Informal Settlements Development: Combining Upgrading and Housing— A Case Study of District 13 Kabul City." Indian Journal of Science and Technology 15, no. 10 (2022): 408–27. https://doi.org/10.17485/IJST/v15i10.1419.

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Abstract <strong>Objectives:</strong> Urban upgrading is a widely used method in developing informal settlements. The method has shown a high satisfaction rate among the residents of informal settlements in Kabul city. However, after years the upgraded area still lacks urban facilities. And, only implementation of urban renewal destroyed the existing community. This paper studies a twin-track approach to upgrading and resettlement housing. Resettlement is done using the Urban Renewal method. Urban renewal implementation is compared in three development typologies of the master plan to rel

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Samper, Jota, Jennifer A. Shelby, and Dean Behary. "The Paradox of Informal Settlements Revealed in an ATLAS of Informality: Findings from Mapping Growth in the Most Common Yet Unmapped Forms of Urbanization." Sustainability 12, no. 22 (2020): 9510. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12229510.

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Informal settlements are the most common form of urbanization on the planet, accounting for one-third of the total urban form. It is expected that by the mid twenty-first century, up to three billion people will live in informal urban environments. However, we lack a consistent mapping method to pinpoint where that informality is located or how it expands. This paper presents the findings from a collection of standardized measurements of 260 informal settlements across the world. The main research goal is to identify a standard global sample of informal neighborhoods. It then focuses on mappin

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Mwamba, Jonathan Simbeya. "Analysis of Space Manipulation in an Informal Urban Settlement: The Case of Ng’ombe in Lusaka, Zambia." International Journal of Social Science Studies 8, no. 6 (2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v8i6.4971.

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Urban informality remains a consistent challenge and matter of debate by planners and policymakers in the urbanising cities of sub-Saharan Africa. A common manifestation of urban informality in African cities is the sprawling informal settlements that constitute the only available housing option for the majority of the urban poor. The analysis of informal urban settlement’s environmental composition, physical modelling and socio-economic and policy analysis have been areas of recent study. However there is limited literature on how the urban poor communities in Zambia manipulate their social,

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Alrasheedi, Khlood Ghalib, Ashraf Dewan, and Ahmed El-Mowafy. "Using Local Knowledge and Remote Sensing in the Identification of Informal Settlements in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia." Remote Sensing 15, no. 15 (2023): 3895. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15153895.

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Urban planning within Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, has been impacted by the presence of informal settlements. An understanding of the spatial distribution of these settlements is essential in developing urban policies. This study used remotely sensed imagery to evaluate and characterize informal settlements within the city, both with and without expert knowledge of the study area (defined as expert knowledge, EK). An informal settlement ontology for four study sites within Riyadh City was developed using an analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Local knowledge was translated into a rules

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Cutini, Valerio, Valerio Di Pinto, Antonio Maria Rinaldi, and Francesco Rossini. "Proximal Cities: Does Walkability Drive Informal Settlements?" Sustainability 12, no. 3 (2020): 756. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12030756.

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The uncontrolled growth of urban areas worldwide is pushing a substantial part of the urban population to the fringes of society, confining them to the unsecure and unhygienic settlements that we call “informal.” These settlements lack in intelligible layout and essential services and infrastructures, thus representing a challenging issue for policy makers and urban designers in the development of renewal programs and strategies. In order to support the facing of these issues through an on-site upgrade approach, this paper argues that walkability deeply affects the functioning of informal sett

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Esmail, Shakirah, and Jason Corburn. "Struggles to remain in Kigali’s “unplanned” settlements: the case of Bannyahe." Environment and Urbanization 32, no. 1 (2019): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247819886229.

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Examining the precarious status of informal settlements in Kigali at a time of large-scale planning-induced expropriation, this article considers urban contestation in the context of the city’s changing spatial-legal regime. We analyse the case of one informal settlement’s expropriation and relocation – the settlement of Bannyahe – and the contestation that has ensued as resident property owners take the District of Gasabo to court. Through interviews with settlement residents, we follow the fates of these displaced urban citizens and consider their struggles to remain in their homes. Finally,

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Mudau, Naledzani, and Paidamwoyo Mhangara. "Mapping and Assessment of Housing Informality Using Object-Based Image Analysis: A Review." Urban Science 7, no. 3 (2023): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7030098.

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Research on the detection of informal settlements has increased in the past three decades owing to the availability of high- to very-high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery. The achievement of development goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, requires access to up-to-date information on informal settlements. This review provides an overview of studies that used object-based image analysis (OBIA) techniques to detect informal settlements using remotely sensed data. This paper focuses on three main aspects: image processing steps followed when detecting informal settlements using O

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Weimann, Amy, and Tolu Oni. "A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Interventions in South Africa, a Rapidly Urbanising Middle-Income Country." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 19 (2019): 3608. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193608.

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Informal settlements are becoming more entrenched within African cities as the urban population continues to grow. Characterised by poor housing conditions and inadequate services, informal settlements are associated with an increased risk of disease and ill-health. However, little is known about how informal settlement upgrading impacts health over time. A systematised literature review was conducted to explore existing evidence and knowledge gaps on the association between informal settlement characteristics and health and the impact of informal settlement upgrading on health, within South A

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Kamalipour, Hesam. "Improvising Places: The Fluidity of Space in Informal Settlements." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (2020): 2293. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062293.

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This paper engages with how the incremental production of space works in informal settlements. As one of the critical challenges of urbanism in the cities of the global South, informal settlements cannot be simply addressed through ruthless practices of demolition and eviction since they can often be incrementally upgraded on the same site. Such practices of upgrading rely on a sophisticated understanding of how urban morphology and adaptation work in informal settlements. In this paper, I focus on the fluidity of space by drawing on a case study of an informal settlement in Pune, India. The k

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Bandauko, Elmond, Senanu Kwasi Kutor, Eunice Annan-Aggrey, and Godwin Arku. "‘They say these are places for criminals, but this is our home’: internalising and countering discourses of territorial stigmatisation in Harare’s informal settlements." International Development Planning Review ahead-of-print (August 1, 2020): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2021.9.

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In developing countries, people living in informal settlements are subjected to different forms of coercive control such as threats of evictions, exclusion, blocked access to urban services and other types of structural violence. These coercive measures are legitimised through the discursive branding of informal settlements as ‘unplanned’, ‘disorderly’ and ‘dangerous’ neighbourhoods. This paper examines how people living in these denigrated neighbourhoods engage with and resist this territorial stigmatisation. It uses data from key informant interviews (KIIs) with urban elites, in-depth interv

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Pojani, Dorina. "The self-built city: theorizing urban design of informal settlements." Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research 13, no. 2 (2019): 294–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arch-11-2018-0004.

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Purpose While a substantial amount of study of informal settlements has been undertaken, they remain largely unstudied in terms of urban form. In this analysis, the purpose of this paper is to set forth a conceptual framework, which considers the context in which informality takes place, the settlement itself, the houses contained therein, the dwellers of those houses and the process through which a settlement is designed and transformed over time. Design/methodology/approach This is a literature review. Findings This framework aims to be sufficiently flexible to be deployed across diverse nat

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Adejare, Jacob, Musibau Jelili, and Akeem Muili. "Patronage Pattern and Accessibility of Healthcare Facilities in Urban Slums and Informal Settlements in Ibadan Metropolis." Urban and Regional Planning 9, no. 3 (2024): 71–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.urp.20240903.12.

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Slums and informal settlements are residential areas physically and socially disintegrated. In spite of this, inadequate health-related data on slum areas and informal settlements has led to inappropriate and unrealistic allocation of healthcare resources by the public and private health providers. This study investigates the patronage pattern and accessibility of healthcare facilities to residents of urban slums and Informal settlements in Ibadan Metropolis, a rapidly growing urban area in Nigeria facing challenges related to urbanization and healthcare infrastructure. Data were collected fro

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Matarira, Dadirai, Onisimo Mutanga, and Maheshvari Naidu. "Google Earth Engine for Informal Settlement Mapping: A Random Forest Classification Using Spectral and Textural Information." Remote Sensing 14, no. 20 (2022): 5130. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14205130.

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Accurate and reliable informal settlement maps are fundamental decision-making tools for planning, and for expediting informed management of cities. However, extraction of spatial information for informal settlements has remained a mammoth task due to the spatial heterogeneity of urban landscape components, requiring complex analytical processes. To date, the use of Google Earth Engine platform (GEE), with cloud computing prowess, provides unique opportunities to map informal settlements with precision and enhanced accuracy. This paper leverages cloud-based computing techniques within GEE to i

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Hamidah, Noor, R. Rijanta, Bakti Setiawan, and Muh Aris Marfai. "Physical Analysis of Formal and Informal Integration in Urban Riverside Settlement." MIMBAR, Jurnal Sosial dan Pembangunan 33, no. 1 (2017): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.29313/mimbar.v33i1.2107.

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The concept of this research toward sustainability development, it focuses on avaibality of human settlement. One of the primary goals in human settlement in a city development. Most of settlement in Indonesia is located close to the river. The main function of river is living orientation, transportation, and settlement. The riverside area is developed to be a city with the rapid urban settlement along a riverside area, such as informal settlement inside formal settlement. The objective of this research is to analyse of the pattern of physical integration between formal and informal settlement

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Ezebilo, Eugene Ejike, and Patrice Savadogo. "Preferences for Infrastructure and Determinants of Decision to Live in a Makeshift House in Informal Settlements." Economies 9, no. 4 (2021): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/economies9040183.

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The upgrade paradigm has been a widely accepted solution to informal settlements. However, implementing an effective upgrade program has been challenging for governments of most developing countries. This paper reports a study which examined informal settlement residents’ preferences for infrastructure provided by an upgrade project and factors influencing their decision to live in a makeshift house. It also examined how an informal settlement upgrade project can be implemented in an effective manner. The data originated from interviews with 231 residents of informal settlements in Port Moresb

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Wojtowicz-Jankowska, Dorota, and Bahaa Bou Kalfouni. "A Vision of Sustainable Design Concepts for Upgrading Vulnerable Coastal Areas in Light of Climate Change Impacts: A Case Study from Beirut, Lebanon." Sustainability 14, no. 7 (2022): 3986. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14073986.

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Rapid urbanization combined with the effects of climate change has increased the vulnerability of poor urban communities to natural hazards, particularly to informal settlements located in coastal areas. Apart from socio-economic challenges, the effects of climate change threaten the very existence of these settlements. They are particularly vulnerable due to their poor structural quality and lack of adequate infrastructure to mitigate the consequences of any natural event. The article highlights an informal settlement belt, located on the coastline of the southern suburb of the capital Beirut

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Jiburum, Uloma, Victor O. Duyilemi, Paul C. Ogbuefi, and Maxwell U. Nwachukwu. "Factors that influence choice of residence by urban informal settlement dwellers in an intermediate city: A case study of Enugu, Nigeria." Sustainable Social Development 2, no. 4 (2024): 2746. http://dx.doi.org/10.54517/ssd.v2i4.2746.

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<p>The consequences of urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa are poverty, insecurity, and the growth of informal settlements. These settlements are characterized by overcrowding, tenure insecurity, a lack of basic services and amenities, and many other deprivations. The current study looks at the social and environmental problems faced by residents and, the factors responsible for their choice to reside in an informal settlement in Enugu using the survey research method. Primary and secondary data were utilized in the study. Whereas the former source includes a structured questionnaire and

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Al-Hagla, Khalid. "Harnessing Local Dynamics for Upgrading Informal Settlements: The Ezbit Hegazi Experience with the ALEXU-CoE-SUG." Sustainability 16, no. 12 (2024): 4953. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16124953.

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Informal settlements pose multifaceted challenges to urban development, necessitating a reconsideration of traditional upgrading approaches. This study examines the integration of the street-led approach within the Ezbit Hegazi informal settlement, leveraging the Alexandria University Centre of Excellence for Smart Urban Governance’s (ALEXU-CoE-SUG’s) innovative framework. It highlights the centrality of ‘Demand for Good Governance’ (DFGG) practices in bridging the gap between governmental (supply-side) and community (demand-side) objectives, fostering a collaborative urban upgrading process.

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Arif, Muhammad Mashhood, Muhammad Ahsan, Oswald Devisch, and Yves Schoonjans. "Integrated Approach to Explore Multidimensional Urban Morphology of Informal Settlements: The Case Studies of Lahore, Pakistan." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (2022): 7788. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14137788.

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The understanding of urban morphology as a means of exploring the materiality of urban areas has been an emerging practice amongst academics, but the reach of the methods in urban-design research has been limited. This research presents the integration of GIS application and fieldwork analysis as the main methods to support the interpretation of urban morphology as methodical, exploratory, and multidimensional. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, commonly known as the KS test, is also conducted to illustrate a contrast among the settlements. The study focuses on various dimensions of informal settlem

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Arif, Muhammad Mashhood, Oswald Devisch, and Yves Schoonjans. "Examining the Intricacies and Perpetual Issues in Urban Informal Settlements: Lessons from Two Case Studies of Informal Settlements in Lahore, Pakistan." Journal of Art, Architecture and Built Environment 6, no. 1 (2023): 62–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/10.32350/jaabe.61.04.

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Informal settlements have become a central part of urban imagery. It is a self-organized form of urbanization that expands beyond the reach of the state and encroaches upon, infiltrates, and inundates cities in the Global South. The forms of urban informality develop and offer a means of habitation for the urban poor, characterized by a lack of basic services, overcrowding, economic vulnerability, and an unhygienic urban environment. In Lahore, a metropolitan area with more than 11 million residents, informal settlement growth is the most perceptible. The current study deploys a case study app

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Matarira, Dadirai, Onisimo Mutanga, Maheshvari Naidu, and Marco Vizzari. "Object-Based Informal Settlement Mapping in Google Earth Engine Using the Integration of Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and PlanetScope Satellite Data." Land 12, no. 1 (2022): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12010099.

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Mapping informal settlements’ diverse morphological patterns remains intricate due to the unavailability and huge costs of high-resolution data, as well as the spatial heterogeneity of urban environments. The accessibility to high-spatial-resolution PlanetScope imagery, coupled with the convenience of simple non-iterative clustering (SNIC) algorithm within the Google Earth Engine (GEE), presents the potential for Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) to map the spatial morphology of deprivation pockets in a complex built-up environment of Durban. Such advances in multi-sensor satelli

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Repeva, Anastasia. "Informal settlements in Baghdad city." E3S Web of Conferences 263 (2021): 05001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202126305001.

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The research deals with the issue of slums, urban sprawl on agriculture land and its impact on the city of Baghdad. This topic needs close attention because it has become a problem facing the city of Baghdad through recruiting agricultural lands and converting them to residential homes in addition to the transgression on the state lands and building abuses. This research deals with the causes of slums, irregular urban sprawl and risks of excesses on land uses of land in Baghdad. In this research, we try to know the extent to which these problems have affected the city of Baghdad. The research

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Livengood, Avery, and Keya Kunte. "Enabling participatory planning with GIS: a case study of settlement mapping in Cuttack, India." Environment and Urbanization 24, no. 1 (2012): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247811434360.

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This paper describes the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to map informal settlements in Cuttack, India in ways that enhance and support residents’ participation in the data collection and planning process. Rather than relying on remote sensing to identify informal settlement locations, each settlement is visited individually by a mapping team comprised of community leaders and NGO staff. The mapping team meets with settlement residents to develop a detailed settlement profile and map the settlement boundary using a GPS device. This process has helped to open and sustain a dialog

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Kirabo, Brenda, and Mark Raphael Owor Olweny. "Spatial Orders in Informal Settlements." Journal of Public Space 7, no. 1 (2022): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v7i1.1530.

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Spontaneous settlements are a feature of urban areas across the world, and the global south in particular. Over the years, studies of these settlements have been framed around upgrading. Premised on the idea that spontaneous settlements were (and are) an undesirable part of the urban fabric. Often described by what they lack (land tenure, space, water, sanitation and adequate shelter), spontaneous settlements appear as a problem to be fixed. Upgrading schemes were thus geared towards ‘regularising’ them, so as to ensure they could fit into the formal desired characteristics of urban spaces. Up

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Dusabeyezu, Cesar, Richard Mind’Je, Domina Izabayo, and Gisele Uwizeye. "Informal Settlement Upgrading and Rehousing and Its Impact on Urban Resilience in Rwanda, A Case Study of Mpazi in Kigali City." International Journal of Advanced Research 8, no. 1 (2025): 278–92. https://doi.org/10.37284/ijar.8.1.3238.

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Informal settlements are prevalent in rapidly urbanising regions, often characterised by inadequate infrastructure and services, rendering them vulnerable to various socio-economic and environmental challenges. This study examined the impacts of informal settlement upgrading and rehousing on urban resilience in Rwanda, taking Mpazi as the case study. To achieve this, a mixed-methods approach that integrated qualitative and quantitative data was utilised. With these approaches, questionnaires were administered to 400 randomly sampled residents to gather quantitative data on upgraded housing sta

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Petrulaityte, Aine, Fabrizio Ceschin, Josephine Kaviti Musango, Betty Karimi Mwiti, Christer Anditi, and Peris Njoroge. "Supporting the Development of Gendered Energy Innovations for Informal Urban Settlements: GENS Codesign Toolkit for Multistakeholder Collaboration." Sustainability 14, no. 10 (2022): 6291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14106291.

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There is still little knowledge about the link between gender mainstreaming and energy security in informal urban settlements and there is limited design support to address this linkage. This paper presents the development and evaluation of the Gender for Energy Security (GENS) codesign toolkit, which was made to facilitate the design of gendered energy innovations for informal urban settlements. The toolkit was developed by applying the Design Research Methodology (DRM) and is grounded in the findings of a literature review, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in two informa

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Hunter, Mark, and Dorrit Posel. "Here to work: the socioeconomic characteristics of informal dwellers in post-apartheid South Africa." Environment and Urbanization 24, no. 1 (2012): 285–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247811433537.

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Government policy towards informal settlements in south africa reflects a tension between two approaches: recognizing the legitimacy of informal settlements and aggressively removing these so-called “slums”.( 1 ) drawing on nationally representative household survey data and interviews with 25 individuals relocated from an informal settlement to a “transit camp”, this paper argues that more detailed attention should be paid to the changing connection between housing, household formation and work. Whereas cities in the apartheid era were marked by relatively stable industrial labour and raciall

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Visagie, Justin, and Ivan Turok. "Getting urban density to work in informal settlements in Africa." Environment and Urbanization 32, no. 2 (2020): 351–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247820907808.

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The drawbacks of crowded informal settlements stand in stark contrast to the theoretical promise that urban density is the key to building more productive, sustainable and resilient cities. African cities cannot be expected to prosper while the majority of residents live in sprawling informal settlements with no prospect of improvement beyond the provision of basic services. There is a strong case for governments to embrace a broader reconstruction agenda in order to harness the potential of density for all-round progress. The core proposition of the paper is that urban population growth would

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Ambugadu, Amadu Monday, and Nafisa Hosni. "IDENTIFYING INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN SATELLITE IMAGES FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN PLANNING: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF METHODS AVAILABLE." Journal of Information System and Technology Management 7, no. 25 (2022): 102–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/jistm.725008.

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The current urbanization trend, along with a shortage of affordable housing, has led to the proliferation of informal settlements in most cities in the global south. The variance in spectral, spatial image resolution, texture, colours, and complex physical shapes of informal urban settlements has made it difficult to provide accurate evidence for urban planners to achieve sustainable urban planning. In this article, the PRISMA methodology was used to thoroughly investigate various techniques used to classify informal settlements from satellite imagery between 2010 and 2021, as well as identify

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Muller, Anna, and Edith Mbanga. "Participatory enumerations at the national level in Namibia: the Community Land Information Programme (CLIP)." Environment and Urbanization 24, no. 1 (2012): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247811435891.

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This paper describes how the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia developed the capacity to undertake enumerations and mapping of informal settlements and, with support from the national government and a local NGO, developed the Community Land Information Programme. Through this initiative, the federation has profiled and mapped all of the informal settlements in Namibia, covering more than 500,000 people without secure land tenure and setting a significant precedent in terms of the ability of the federation to work at scale. For each settlement, a profile was developed by the residents that s

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Banerjee, Shravani, Diksha Diksha, Alisha Prasad, and Amit Kumar. "Informal Settlement Characterization and Socio-Economic Vulnerability Assessment in Kolkata Metropolitan City, India." Geoplanning: Journal of Geomatics and Planning 11, no. 2 (2024): 121–38. https://doi.org/10.14710/geoplanning.11.2.121-138.

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The study investigates the physical, social, and economic environment of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) to elucidate the living conditions of informal settlements and its influence on the local environment using geoinformatics and multi-criteria decision making-analytical hierarchical process (MCDM-AHP). The informal settlements were delineated using high-resolution Google Earth imagery and generic ontology informal settlements. knowledge considering building characteristics, building density, locations of the dwelling units, and their characteristics. The study exhibits that most informa

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Banerjee, Shravani, Diksha Diksha, Alisha Prasad, and Amit Kumar. "Informal Settlement Characterization and Socio-Economic Vulnerability Assessment in Kolkata Metropolitan City, India." Geoplanning: Journal of Geomatics and Planning 11, no. 2 (2024): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.14710/geoplanning.11.2.1-18.

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The study investigates the physical, social, and economic environment of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) to elucidate the living conditions of informal settlements and its influence on the local environment using geoinformatics and multi-criteria decision making-analytical hierarchical process (MCDM-AHP). The informal settlements were delineated using high-resolution Google Earth imagery and generic ontology informal settlements. knowledge considering building characteristics, building density, locations of the dwelling units, and their characteristics. The study exhibits that most informa

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Mntambo, S., and P. ADEBAYO. "DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA’S INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: POLICY, PRACTICE AND COVID-19 IMPLICATIONS." JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE CITIES AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2, no. 3 (2022): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.54030/2788-564x/2022/v2s3a7.

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The rise of informal settlements in the global south during the latter part of the twentieth century led to the role of disaster management being recognized as a crucial aspect of urban planning. As a result of this, the United Nations called for all the world’s governments to develop and integrate proactive and preventative disaster management policies into their respective countries’ development plans while integrating informal settlements in their urban planning initiatives in a bid to create inclusive cities. South Africa, being one of the countries that are heavily impacted by informal se

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Laurent Mussa, Laurean. "Legal Implications of Protection of Informal Settlements on Urban Land use Planning in Tanzania." Eastern Africa Law Review 47, no. 1 (2020): 68–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.56279/ealr.v47i1.3.

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Urban land use planning legislation prohibits the setting up of residential houses in any planning area without authorization. Despite this prohibition, most urban areas in Tanzania face the problem of informal settlements; and these are protected by legislation. The Land Act, for example, provides for upgrading of such settlements through issuance of residential licences and regularization. In this paper, it is argued that protecting informal settlements is an obstacle to planning institutions towards achieving planned urban areas as the upgrading schemes address the problem partially. It is

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ADEGUN, Olumuyiwa Bayode. "GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN RELATION TO INFORMAL URBAN SETTLEMENTS." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 41, no. 1 (2017): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20297955.2017.1296791.

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Green infrastructure plays a critical role in environmentally sustainable urbanization in developing countries. Based on a review of academic outputs, this paper explores green infrastructure in the context of informal urban settlements. It identifies three ways informal settlements are connected to green spaces and natural ecosystems functioning as urban green infrastructure and then shows examples of benefits derived (ecosystem services) by the urban poor from these connections. Undesirable aspects and negative outcomes, regarded as ecosystem disservices, from the connection to natural ecosy

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Molus, Wilma, Verena Thomas, Jackie Kauli, and Laurie Buys. "'I want to buy my own block of land': Representation of urban settlement communities in Papua New Guinea." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 27, no. 1and2 (2021): 232–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v27i1and2.1196.

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Urban settlements are home to around half the urban population of Papua New Guinea. Since the end of the Second World War, PNG towns and cities have experienced significant growth of urban settlements. Urban dwellings were established on customary and untransformed state lands. With limited support for services from government, informal settlements in the urban landscape have often been perceived from the perspective of their deficiencies. However, residents of urban settlement communities play an important role in urban economies. The purpose of this article is to critically review perception

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Kemper, T., N. Mudau, P. Mangara, and M. Pesaresi. "Towards an automated monitoring of human settlements in South Africa using high resolution SPOT satellite imagery." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XL-7/W3 (April 30, 2015): 1389–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-7-w3-1389-2015.

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Urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa are growing at an unprecedented pace. Much of this growth is taking place in informal settlements. In South Africa more than 10% of the population live in urban informal settlements. South Africa has established a National Informal Settlement Development Programme (NUSP) to respond to these challenges. This programme is designed to support the National Department of Human Settlement (NDHS) in its implementation of the Upgrading Informal Settlements Programme (UISP) with the objective of eventually upgrading all informal settlements in the country. Currently, t

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Pimentel Walker, Ana, and María Arquero de Alarcón. "The Competing Social and Environmental Functions of Private Urban Land: The Case of an Informal Land Occupation in São Paulo’s South Periphery." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (2018): 4160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114160.

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This article examines the role of legal actors in mediating urban land conflicts involving informal settlements and the social and environmental functions of private property. This problem reveals the challenges of conciliating two constitutional rights—the right to adequate housing and the right to a healthy environment. Methods include an analysis of the urban policy and legal framework regulating environmental protection, housing provision, property rights, and land use law. The legal case analysis of Ocupação Anchieta, a young land occupation in São Paulo’s periphery, offers additional evi

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Mwangangi, Winfred Mumbe, Ruth Simiyu, and Namenya Daniel Naburi. "Types of Urban Vulnerabilities Affecting Households in Informal Settlements of Kisumu County." African Journal of Empirical Research 4, no. 2 (2023): 1235–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.51867/ajernet.4.2.125.

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Households residing in informal settlements are often hampered by urban-induced vulnerabilities. Despite more than fifty per cent of urban residents in Kisumu County residing in informal settlements, it is unclear to what extent urban-induced vulnerabilities affect their livelihoods. To address this problem, the study examined the types of urban vulnerabilities in Kisumu County Informal Settlements. The data was collected from a sample of 396 households using structured questionnaires, key informant interviews and document reviews. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics an

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Fundisha, Evarist. "Exploring the Characteristics, Drivers and Control Strategies of Informal Settlements on Mkimbizi Hill in Iringa Municipality, Tanzania." Ghana Journal of Geography 14, no. 2 (2022): 135–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjg.v14i2.6.

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This study explored the characteristics, drivers, and control strategies of informal settlements on MkimbiziHill in Iringa Municipality, Tanzania. The study employed a mixed research design whereby heads ofhouseholds were randomly selected while key informants were purposively sampled. Data were collectedthrough a questionnaire survey with heads of households, in-depth interviews with key informants, and fieldobservations. Quantitative data were analysed by statistical product and service solution software.Qualitative data were organised into themes and involved content analysis. It was establ

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Chrispus, Opakrwoth, and Abdulsalam Ibrahim Shema. "Urban formalities versus informalities: Case study of Katwe informal settlements, Kampala Uganda." Building Engineering 3, no. 1 (2025): 1625. https://doi.org/10.59400/be1625.

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Formal settlements refer to those settlements that comply with legal and regulatory frameworks, while informal settlements, commonly known as slums, arise without official sanction and often lack basic services and infrastructure. Informal settlements are an inherent reality that are integral parts of the urban centers in most developing nations such as the capital city of Uganda, Kampala. Currently, the city is experiencing numerous urban challenges such as inadequate housing, overcrowding, crime, and limited access to basic social services. These challenges have adverse social, economic and

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