Built Environment
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Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing and Infrastructure
Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing and Infrastructure concentrates on how groups of poor people – coalitions of the poor around the world have been able and been enabled to lead the process of transforming slums into vibrant and stable neighbourhoods. It showcases the strategies and the dedication,...
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Confronting the Crisis in Urban Poverty
Lucy Stevens, Stuart Coupe, Diana Mitlin
The challenge of urban poverty is growing every year. It is predicted that over 95% of global population growth between 2000 and 2030 will take place in the cities of the developing world. If current trends continue, the huge majority of those will end up in slums. Tackling urban poverty, however, h...
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Contested Space
The importance of public space in supporting city economies and in contributing to poverty reduction is rarely recognized. Instead, public space is more often an arena for contest – between municipal governments or other vested interests, and street traders, whose activities are proscribed by restri...
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Building Bridges with the Grassroots
About one billion people now live in the slums of the towns and cities of the developing world. And their number is set to double by 2030, unless concerted efforts are made to the contrary. Slums provide an unhealthy and dangerous living environment, and improving the living conditions of slum dwell...
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Partnerships to Improve Access and Quality of Public Transport: A case report. Faisalabad, Pakistan
This book presents findings from project R7786 Partnerships to improve access and quality of urban public transport for the urban poor carried out by the authors as part of the Knowledge and Research (KaR) programme of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department, Department for International...
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Partnerships to improve access and quality of public transport: A case report Colombo, Sri Lanka
This book presents findings from project R7786 Partnerships to improve access and quality of urban public transport for the urban poor carried out by the authors as part of the Knowledge and Research (KaR) programme of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department, Department for International...
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Partnerships to Improve Access and Quality of Public Transport: Guidelines and Compilation CD
This book presents finding from the DFID-funded projects 'Partnership to Improve Access and Quality of Urban Public Transport for the Urban Poor'. The purpose of the project was to identify, explore, and document critical issues in the provision of transport services for and in low-income settlement...
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Partnerships to Improve Access and Quality of Public Transport - A case report: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This book presents findings from project R7786 Partnerships to improve access and quality of urban public transport for the urban poor carried out by the authors as part of the Knowledge and Research (KaR) programme of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department, Department for International...
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Building Sustainable Urban Settlements
This fascinating book explores environmental, institutional, social and cultural aspects of sustainability in a variety of towns and cities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central and South America. The contributors focus particularly on meeting the needs of the urban poor. The main themes are:...
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Building with Lime
Stafford Holmes, Michael Wingate
The most common raw material for making lime is limestone, which is one of the world’s most abundant minerals, widely available in many countries. Lime has many other uses, but this book is specifically about its use in building and construction, for which it has a proven track record through severa...