Download or read book Progressive Development and Affordability in the Design of Urban Shelter Projects written by Douglas H. Keare and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 63 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 439 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.
Download or read book Shelter Strategies for the Urban Poor written by Robert M. Buckley and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "In 1986 the World Bank prepared a strategy for low-income housing in developing countries. This work grew out of the Bank's efforts to support the urban poor through an extensive housing assistance program that was launched by Bank President McNamara's speech on urban poverty. By that time, the Bank had provided more than.
Download or read book Shelter Settlement Development written by Lloyd Rodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, Shelter, Settlement & Development presents a comprehensive and authoritative reappraisal of shelter, settlement and development policies and programs in third world countries. Drawing on the considerable research and advisory experience of an internationally distinguished group of contributors, it introduces new ideas on many themes such as spatial strategies, land policy, shanty town settlements, infrastructure standards and construction obstacles, intricacies of housing finance and household behaviour and preferences. Each facet of the study sums up what can be inferred from past experience: what worked and what did not, and why; what ideas are in currency; what policy choices lie ahead; and most important of all, what further changes are needed to achieve feasible and effective solutions, not quick fixes, or one-shot remedies. There is a special focus on the necessary learning processes so that whatever action is taken is likely to be self-correcting in the light of subsequent experience, reflection and changing circumstances. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of development studies, urban studies and planning, and public policy.
Download or read book Urban Dynamics Environment and Health written by Braj Raj Kumar Sinha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive volume focuses on spatial, temporal, conceptual and empirical approaches to various elements of urban dynamics, environment and urban health. It demonstrates a multidisciplinary account of the significant dimensions of urbanization and urban life. Chapters by leading international experts are presented in sections on urban dynamics, Urban Environmental Issues, Urban Health Problems and Urban Development, Planning and Policies. Each chapter provides a breadth of information on conceptual and empirical studies of urban issues. It enables the readers to understand the interconnections of various vital elements of each urban-related topical issue locally, regionally and globally. Extensive maps, charts, diagrams and tables as cartographic tools facilitate the reader’s understanding. It also outlines an action plan for policy program change in both the developed and less developed countries toward sustainable urban development and environment for better health, prosperity and quality of life of the present and future urban population. It is an indispensable reference for students, research scholars of geography and environmental, medical, and social sciences at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Download or read book Sustainable Urban Planning written by Joy Sen and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing an approach for sustainable planning framework in the Indian context is extremely complex due to the diversity in the urban and metropolitan regions in the country. Sustainable Urban Planning attempts to clarify the planning process and sets a broad framework of urban planning in the country. The book focuses on the planning reality of fundamental dimensions of sustainability and explains a work framework of the dynamics of sustainable planning in India. The present book clarifies the planning process to students, who are trying to work in the Indian context. It presents in three sections a set of interwoven discussions. Section one operates on the corpus of planning reality to disentangle the sutras of fundamental dimensions of sustainability and the interrelationship between these sutras to re-explain a working framework of the dynamics of sustainable planning in India. Section two expands on each of the dimensions, explaining their divergent parameters and their indispensable roles in the making of such a framework. Section three synthesizes all of them to form the framework itself.
Download or read book Housing the Nation a Singapore Policy Story written by Kim Hin / David Ho and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 takes a close look at a unique and state-of-the-art dynamic, structural public housing macroeconomic model (DSPHM), based on an open economy for several key macroeconomic variables, actual and expected, as well as the demand for new HDB flats sold. This Chapter readily adopts the DSPHM for simulating two scenarios, namely a “no change” first scenario and a public housing “deregulation” second scenario. Chapter 2 explores the relationship between several economic factors and the demand for public housing in Singapore and Hong Kong, deploying the innovative and versatile system dynamics model, to shed better understanding on the policy implications of assisted ownership housing. The Chapter assesses the demand for new flats of the Singapore and Hong Kong economies, under certain macroeconomic policy changes, suitable for their unique situations. Chapter 3 is concerned with the underlying structural relationships that affect Singapore’s public housing policy to potentially privatize the HDB concessionary-rate mortgages for HDB homebuyers. Such a potential privatization infuses and sustains price competitiveness among the domestic private banks in Singapore, and lead to improved efficiency among them as well as the Singapore economy at large. Chapter 4 is concerned with the binomial option-pricing model, proposed by Cox, Ross and Rubinstein (1979), which is appropriate to represent the movement of the underlying HDB resale flat prices, subject to private market forces in HDB’s large scale public housing secondary resale market. The HDB Main Upgrading Program (MUP) is a heavily subsidized and highly targeted public housing policy. Since its inception in 1992, the HDB has budgeted some S$3 billion to finance the MUP policy. Chapter 5 recognizes housing affordability to be always an issue of concern to many Singaporean homebuyers because shelter forms one of the basic life necessities. The corresponding private residential market in Singapore offers quality and premium private residential accommodation for homebuyers, who prefer the private residential market. The appropriate affordability model is a multi-factor housing affordability index (HAI) model, which considers the ability to provide down payment and to service the mortgage taken up. Lastly, Chapter 6 offers the book’s conclusion.
Download or read book World Bank Staff Working Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Bank Staff Working Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Market Prices and Assessed Values in the Urban Land Market in Bogota Colombia written by M. Wilhelm Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Bank Research News written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Acquisitions in the UNECA Library written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Library and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Union Catalogue of Economic Social Development Sri Lanka written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book User Charges for Education written by Jee-Peng Tan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment in education is generally recognized as essential for a country's long term economic and social development. However, present macroeconomic conditions have limited allocation of public resources for education. Policymakers are seeking alternative sources of finance, one of which is the tapping of private household resources via user charges. This paper addresses two main issues involved in mobilizing resources by this method: (i) the ability and willingness of families to pay; and (ii) the possible expansion of enrollment that might be accomplished, given public budget constraints. The data on Malawi suggest the following: (i) a moderate fee increase is unlikely to precipitate a large dropout rate among students; (ii) excess demand will more than compensate for those students who do drop out due to the fee increase; and (iii) since fee increases will have a stronger impact on lower income families, they should be linked with equity measures such as scholarships.
Download or read book Ekistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Supply Response for Rubber in Sri Lanka written by Michael J. Hartley and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1984 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of supply response for perennial crops has frequently been limited by lack of data. This study is based on new extensive time series for rubber in Sri Lanka covering total output, producer prices, new plantings, replantings, wage rates, area under cultivation, as well as many other variables. In addition, a survey of 49 rubber estates provides data on yields, type and age of clone, stand densities, and many other variables. This paper reports some preliminary analysis of the Sri Lankan data designed to test the adequacy of Dowling's analysis of supply response for rubber in Thailand, based on a sophisticated reduced form supply function developed by Wickens and Greenfield for Brazilian coffee. The model used in this study focuses on the uprooting-replanting decision, which is central to understanding rubber supply response in Sri Lanka, as well as disaggregates the reduced form into several structural relationships. Essential use is made of the age distribution and age-yield profile data from the estate surveys. This modest extension of the Wickens-Greenfield formulation performs significantly better in the Sri Lankan context, than a straightforward application of the model.
Download or read book The Impact of the Legal System on the Dynamics Between the State and Squatters in Bombay and Calcutta written by Lynette Marie Parker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
