Download or read book Community Participation and Slum Housing written by Vandana Desai and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1995-06-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study explores the nature of community participation in a Bombay housing project and analyzes the concepts of influence and power in community participation, focusing on the impact of community mobilization on the process of slum upgrading. The study reveals that despite community organization and pro-participation rhetoric in official discourse, most slum-dwellers are excluded from decision- making. Of interest to those in sociology and development studies, and voluntary organizations and international agencies. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Slums written by Alan Mayne and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
Download or read book Slum Upgrading and Participation written by Ivo Imparato and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN currently estimates that there are about 837 million urban slum dwellers worldwide, and this figure is likely to rise to 1.5 billion by 2020 if current trends are not reversed. This book offers five geographically and institutionally diverse case studies from Latin America, where some of the longest-running and most successful programmes in this field have been conducted. These programmes, involving a wide variety of funding arrangements and agencies, demonstrate the positive impact that community participation and people-oriented service solutions can have on slum upgrading efforts in low income urban areas.
Download or read book Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Development in Africa s Changing Climate written by Emmanuel Adinyira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slum Clearance and Related Housing Problems written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slum Clearance and Related Housing Problems written by United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slum Upgrading written by Fernanda Magalhães (City planner) and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Participation written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Municipalities and Community Participation written by Janelle Plummer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Among all the literature on participation, this is the first book I know that focuses on municipal authorities. It... also has particular importance both for higher levels of government (at national or provincial/state level) and for international agencies. Firstly, it is a reminder of the importance of well-functioning municipal governments for reducing poverty. Secondly, it is a rich source of case studies and analysis about how municipal authorities can incorporate one central component of 'good governance' - a permanent, participatory engagement with their citizens' From the Foreword by David Satterthwaite, Director, Human Settlements Programme, International Institute for Environment and Development Increasingly, governments and donors are advocating the participation of poor communities in the delivery of urban services and infrastructure. Yet local authorities responsible for implementing participatory policies often do not have the skills, organisations or resources needed, or an adequate idea of the capacity required. This sourcebook provides invaluable practical guidance for municipal officials, and others working in urban development and poverty reduction, on the range of issues to be addressed in planning and managing cities with community participation. It explains the key elements of participation, identifies common constraints and opportunities, describes the vehicles for moving participation forward and outlines the capacity building needed for a municipality to achieve participatory goals.
Download or read book Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities written by Ana Opačić and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities, social work education as a community development tool, and the empowerment of social workers in deprived communities. Inequality as a globally recognized challenge is extensively elaborated within the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Global Agenda program for social work, making this a timely and important contribution to the literature. Deprived communities, used in this book to mean slums, ghettos, favelas, and low-income, remote, underserved, vulnerable, impoverished, underdeveloped, disadvantaged, or less-favoured communities, exist worldwide and are conceptualized under different terms and concepts. For that reason, social work, specifically in deprived areas, is not sufficiently recognized as a specific field of practice within community work. As a result, this volume features contributions that: provide a conceptual clarification of many different terms that are used for describing deprived communities and offer a systematic literature review on community processes and effects on well-being in underdeveloped communities; map different fields of social work involvement in deprived communities with concrete practice examples; and, stress why social work as a profession needs support and how it can be empowered to improve its capacities in deprived communities. With international authorship and perspectives on social work approaches for deprived communities from India, Sub-Saharan Africa, North and Central Europe, and North America, Practicing Social Work in Deprived Communities is an essential resource for social workers, social work educators, and community development practitioners. The text also should be of interest to students of social work, as well as other professionals and researchers working within community development and deprived communities.
Download or read book The Companion to Development Studies 2nd Edition written by Vandana Desai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Development Studies is an essential one-stop reference for anyone with an interest in development studies. Over 100 international experts have been brought together to present a comprehensive overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Building on the success of the first edition, the second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes new chapters on a range of topics, including ageing, culture and development, corruption and development and global terrorism. Each chapter summarises current debates and provides guidance for further reading and research. The Companion to Development Studies is indispensable for students of development studies at all levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate and beyond, in departments of development studies, geography, politics, international relations, sociology, social anthropology and economics.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies written by Anthony M. Orum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 2919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida. Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.
Download or read book Hand Book of Low Cost Housing written by A. K. Lal and published by New Age International. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Recent Years, There Is A Growing Emphasis On Low Cost Housing To Meet The Housing Requirements Of The Millions In The Country. This Book Makes An Attempt To Bring Various Issues Related To Low Cost Housing, Under One Umbrella, Viz., Innovative Cost Effective Construction Techniques And Materials, Availability Of Funds, For Undertaking Housing Programmes, Hindrances In The Availability Of Land Due To Several Legal Complications, Upgradation Of Slums And Squatter Settlements, Low Cost Infrastructure Services, Rural Housing Scenario And Measures To Be Adopted For Making Safe And Durable Houses In Areas Prone To Natural Disasters.The Information Contained In The Book Might Prove Beneficial To The Engineering And Architectural Students, Professionals (Architects And Engineers), Both In Private And Public Sectors, Academicians Including Economists And Sociologists And Entrepreneurs In Building Industry. The Book Might Also Serve As A Useful Reference For B.Tech/B.Arch., M.Tech/M.Arch. Courses And Ph.D. Programmes Offered By Several Indian And Foreign Universities.
Download or read book Public Participation in Planning in India written by Ashok Kumar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirroring the complexities of cities and neighborhoods, this volume makes a conscious departure from consensus-oriented public participation to conflict-resolving public participation. In India, planning practice generally involves citizens at different stages of plan-making with a clear purpose of securing a consensus aimed at legitimizing the policy content of a development plan. This book contests and challenges this consensus-oriented view of citizen participation in planning, arguing against the assertion that cities can be represented by a single public interest, for which consensus is sought by planners and policy makers. As such, it replaces consensus-centered rational planning models with Foucauldian and Lacanian models of planning to show that planning is riddled with a variety of spatial conflicts, most of which are resolvable. The book does not downplay differences of class and social and cultural identities of various kinds built on arbitrarily assumed public interest created erroneously by further assuming that the professionally trained planner is unbiased. It moves from theory to practice through case studies, which widens and deepens opportunities for public participation as new arenas beyond the processes of preparation of development plans are highlighted. The book also argues that spaces of public participation in planning are shrinking. For example, city development plans promoted under the erstwhile JNNUM programme and several other neoliberal policy regime initiatives have reduced the quality, as well as the extent of participatory practices in planning. The end result of this is that legally mandated participatory spaces are being used by powerful interests to pursue the neoliberal agenda. The volume is divided into three main parts. The first part deals with the theory and history of public participation and governance in planning in India, and the second presents real-life case studies related to planning at a regional level in order to describe and empirically explore some of the theoretical arguments made in the first. The third section provides analyses of selected case studies at a local level. An introduction and conclusions, along with insights for the future, provide a coherent envelope to the book.
Download or read book CORP 2011 Proceedings Tagungsband written by Manfred Schrenk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South written by Jan Bredenoord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for housing, building materials, labour, participation and finance. The book looks at the role of the various stakeholders involved in such interventions, including national and local governments, private sector organisations, NGOs and Community-based Organisations.
