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Rosario, Cabral Sina Del. "Garbage housing in informal settlements". Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61296.
Abstract (sommario):
The recycling of consumer items and their use as building materials have long been recognized by researchers and scholars in studies of informal settlements. There they are used as substitutes to traditional materials for walls and roofs, scarce or unaffordable in urban areas. However, they are also used as a means to repair or protect dilapidated materials and building components.Recycled consumer items are neither accepted nor regarded as standard building materials. Nevertheless, builders continue to use them, recognizing the existence of a market where they are regarded as alternative materials in housing. The use of these materials is defined by the users' needs and priorities. However, the decision-making process also depends on availability in the market, opportunity cost of the products, the performance of each material and its perceived aesthetic and social value within the community. In the process their use has created complex supply networks that deliver building materials according to local supply and demand.
Based on a field study, this thesis presents the recycled consumer items used for the provision of housing in a squatter settlement. All the recycled non-conventional materials found are recorded according to their uses in the dwelling units, classified according to building types. Later on these materials are classified and analyzed according to their properties, their provision and acquisition.
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Caseau, Anne-Cécile. "Le genre de la « question rom » : migrantes roumaines en France, de la vulnérabilité sociale à la constitution de sujets politiques". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA080079.
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Cette thèse porte sur les expériences genrées de la mobilité précaire chez des femmes roms qui migrent de la Roumanie vers la France. Ce travail s’appuie sur une enquête ethnographique menée pendant neuf mois dans deux bidonvilles de la Seine-Saint-Denis, ainsi que sur des enquêtes au sein de deux associations (accompagnement social et programme de service civique pour les jeunes habitant·es de bidonvilles et squats). Des entretiens formels et informels, notamment avec des militant·es roms et pro-Roms en France et en Roumanie, viennent compléter ces enquêtes, de même qu’un ensemble d’observations d’événements militants et associatifs auxquels les Roms vivant en Ile-de-France sont convié·es. L’enquête le montre, dans un contexte de stigmatisation et de précarité, les femmes roms endossent de nouveaux rôles ; la division sexuée des tâches est bousculée par la migration, qui remet en question l’organisation au sein des familles et des couples. Paradoxalement, la catégorie de vulnérabilité qui peut leur être appliquée dans les politiques publiques de « tri » renforce leur capacité d’agir et contribue à leur subjectivation politique. Tout en proposant une analyse des politiques de (non)-accueil qui conduisent à des expulsions, et produisent une vulnérabilité qui est inégalement distribuée et reconnue, cette thèse conteste ainsi l’incompatibilité présumée entre politique et vulnérabilité, en s’appuyant sur les combats du quotidien dans les bidonvilles et les espaces de représentation où prennent place les femmes. La thèse contribue à une meilleure compréhension de « ce que cela fait d’être un problème » (W.E.B Du Bois, 1903), à partir du point de vue de celles dont la parole reste encore peu audible, et qui pourtant cherchent à ouvrir la voixThis thesis focuses on the gendered experiences of precarious mobility, apprehended through the migration of Roma women from Romania to France. It is based on a nine-month ethnography conducted in two bidonvilles of Seine-Saint-Denis, as well as on other studies in two associations (one for administrative support and one organizing a civil service program for young bidonvilles and squat inhabitants). To complement this fieldwork, this thesis also makes use of a number of formal and informal interviews, in particular with Roma and pro-Roma militants in France and in Romania, and of a collection of observations relating to associative and militant events which Roma living in Ile-de-France were invited to attend. The thesis shows that in a context of stigma and precariousness, Roma women take up new roles. The gendered division of tasks is upended by migration which calls into question the structures that uphold families and couples. Paradoxically, being classified as vulnerable by public policies that sort and select actually reinforces their agency, and contributes to their political subjectivation. This work proposes an analysis of the politics of (in)hospitality that lead to expulsions and that produce unequally distributed and unevenly recognized vulnerability. It also contests the presumed incompatibility between politics and vulnerability, based on the daily struggles in bidonvilles and the spaces that women occupy in order to represent themselves. In doing so, this thesis contributes to an improved understanding of “how it feels to be a problem” (W.E.B Du Bois, 1903) from the perspective of those whose voices are still barely audible, and yet who seek to be heard
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D, Ambrosio Daniela. "O direito fundamental à moradia digna". Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6279.
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Previous issue date: 2013-10-23This dissertation presents the right to adequate housing as a fundamental right. Describes the content of that right, his prediction in the Federal Constitution, in legislation and in international human rights protection and exposes the gap between these predictions and reality. Comes from the huge number of people without adequate housing, comprising spaces characterized by the absence of the state. Identified are responsible for fulfilling that right and discussed their exposure to liability, as well as some possible ways of action of public authorities representatives of the three Powers. At the end, were brought into consideration three case studies that illustrate the points made in the theoretical and demonstrate the way in which they conducted some urban land conflicts
Esta dissertação apresenta o direito à moradia digna como um direito fundamental. Descreve o conteúdo desse direito, a sua previsão na Constituição Federal, na legislação e nas normas internacionais de proteção dos direitos humanos e expõe a lacuna existente entre essas previsões e a realidade brasileira. Trata do enorme número de pessoas sem moradia digna, que compõem espaços caracterizados pela ausência do Estado. São identificados os responsáveis pela satisfação do direito à moradia digna e discutidos os limites dessa responsabilidade, bem como algumas possíveis formas de atuação das autoridades públicas representantes dos três Poderes. Ao final, foram trazidos para reflexão três casos práticos, que ilustram as colocações feitas no plano teórico e demonstram o modo pelo qual foram conduzidos alguns conflitos fundiários urbanos
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Eriksson, Kenneth Kaj Gustaf. "Umeå Castle 2020 : Housing complex for an informal competition". Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171669.
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Lloyd, Ainsley Marie. "THE INFORMAL HOUSING ECONOMY IN CUBA: PROSPECTS FOR PRIVATIZATION". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192536.
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Mohamed, Kamal El Sayed Ibrahim Azza. "Morphological themes of informal housing in Colonias: impacts of sociocultural identity on Webb County housing form". Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4301.
Abstract (sommario):
Informal settlements are a form of housing found in many parts of the world. Self-help housing in
informal settlements has different influences that are denoted in the customs and preferences of the
residents, which in turn, are reflected on the elements of house exteriors as well as its interior. Colonias in
the U.S-Mexico border region are a model of informal settlements. The purpose of this study is to analyze
the social and cultural influences on housing fronts in Webb County Colonias. The study focuses on
investigating traditional features, vernacular forms, building rituals, and social features as they relate to the
morphology of house fronts and their production. The housing model of Geddes and Bertalanffy explained
by Turner (1972) was the premise of establishing the argument of this study. A mixed-method approach
was used in data gathering from the following three Colonias: Los Altos, Larga Vista, and Rio Bravo.
Utilized methods included image-based research through systematic random sampling of housing fronts in
the Colonias, as well as a group-administered structured survey distributed during community monthly
gathering for food distribution. The development of the research process and methodology incorporated
the input of the local community and local leaders and volunteers assisted in its implementation.
The study concluded that past and present experiences of Colonias residents have intense impacts on
different aspects contributing to the themes comprising the morphology of Colonias housing fronts.
A classical pattern of migration as well as maintained contact and continuous dialogue between residents
and their kin were found to result in preserving the inherent native culture of the Coloniasâ residents and
can thus be considered as core elements. This preservation of native culture was indicated by utilization
of semi-private space, traditional roof forms, privacy and security elements, and building rituals. The
study also identified additional secondary modified elements, represented by the lack of gates utilization as a measure of security. These core and modified elements coincide with the Geddes and Bertalanffy model
and therefore it can be deduced that this model can be applied in the case of the Colonias.
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KATURIC, IVANA. "Informal housing in the framework of housing and welfare systems in post-communist croatia". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/133497.
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The object of this thesis is informal construction in South-East European countries during the post-communist transition, in particular the analysis of the metropolitan area of the city of Split. We will approach the issue of informal construction as a complex path-dependent phenomenon that cannot be separated from the social conditions, which generated it, nor from the institutional context in which it is embedded.
In this thesis, we first discuss the transition of the welfare model in post-communist countries and highlight the specific characteristics of Croatia. Attention is paid to the different ways in which the diverse housing systems, as part of wider welfare systems, influence the phenomena of informal construction. The analysis is conducted at the city level in order to define informal construction in relation to the housing provision.
Secondly, we address the problem of the definition of informal construction by looking at the following variable: ownership over land, the relation to the land use regulation, legality of the built object and its expansion, the current use of the object, permanency of the residence and as the last feature, whether it is built through the self promotion. A typology of informal construction is built and is tested in a survey of different neighborhood of the city of Split.
Thirdly, a survey is carried out on the different typologies of informal construction. The focus of the survey is on the ways in which different social groups in the society benefit or are damaged by the phenomenon of informal construction and on the different possibilities and paths to the legalization process. An additional outcome is a refinement of the typology for further research on the topic of informal construction.
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Nguluma, Huba. "Housing Themselves : Transformations, Modernisation and Spatial qualities in Informal Settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania". Doctoral thesis, KTH, Infrastructure, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3494.
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This thesis is an attempt to address issues of housingtransformation in informal settlements. Transformation ofhouses is seen to be associated with modernisation forceswhereby people adapt their houses to suit their needs anddesires. On one hand the desire to own amodernhousemay lead to deterioration of spatial qualities, onthe other hand fulfilment of the desire may contribute to themodernisation of urban settlements. The informal settlement ofHanna Nassif was chosen as a case study to illustrate theprocess of housing transformations in informal settlement.Knowledge on the transformation processes serves as animportant tool to address issues of spatial qualities, housingmodernisation, actors in the processes of transformation anduse of space.
The results show that there is a wide range oftransformation activities that have been taking place in termsof extensions and alterations. The desire to modernise theirhouses impels developers to use modern building materials. Insome instances houses constructed with traditional buildingmaterials are replaced with industrially produced materials.Through transformation processes new house types emerge. Thestudy identifies problems as well as positive aspectsassociated with the whole process of housing transformation.The positive aspects are those of increased indoor space,increase of rooms for renting and in other cases separation offunctions. The problems emerging from this process include:decrease of outdoor space, increase of housing density,blockage of ventilation and light in the transformedhouses.
The study concludes that housing transformation being oneway in which lowincome earners strive to get access to housingdeserves government support, particularly in the absence ofalternative housing supply. It is further observed that todatemany urban dwellers have managed to secure housing as a directresult of house extensions effected by house owners. The houseextensions are being carried out outside the established formalplanning regulations. It is in the light of these developmentsthat there is a cause for government intervention to guidehousing development processes in informal settlements.Professionals like planners and architects should also assume arole for quality and sustainability to prevail. The study alsosuggests specific problem areas for further investigation.
Key words:Tanzania, housing transformation, informalsettlements, modernisation, spatial qualities and housetypes.
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Tinsley, Elaine A. (Elaine Ann). "Mechanics of informal land and housing markets : a theoretical exposition". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70293.
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Xali, Nomawethu. "Community participation in housing development : the Boystown informal settlement project". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1679.
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Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.One of the problems with development planning is a lack of community participation. This is due to the top-down approach that dominates development planning. To improve chances of sustainable development there is a need to shift from a top-down approach towards a bottom-up approach. The bottom-up approach promotes people-centred development. People-centred development focuses on people and enhances their capacity to influence the direction and implementation of the development process. Communities can only influence the development process through their participation. International bodies such as the United Nations and the World Bank support the concept of community participation in development planning. The South African policy framework also provides for community participation. The change agents should utilise this opportunity by sharing knowledge and by learning from the indigenous knowledge of the community. This knowledge exchange between the community and the change agents creates a platform for social learning, capacity building and empowerment. It is through this platform that sustainable development could be achieved. This kind of development process accommodates the building blocks of development. This study examines the level of community participation in a housing development project at the Boystown informal settlement. It was found that there is a lack of community participation in this project and that the project could be a success if there is a higher level of participation by the beneficiaries.
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Tredoux, Marius (Marius Jacobus). "Informal housing in Cape Town : delivery, formalization and stakeholder viewpoints". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2977.
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Thesis (MPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.The City of Cape Town is estimated to host approximately three million people. Of those three million, it is also estimated that 22 percent are living in what could be considered informal dwellings. In 2000, one of the United Nations Millennium Development Declaration goals for 2020 was ‘to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers as proposed in the Cities without slums initiative.’ The South African government took this initiative on board and has set a goal of eradicating all informal settlements in South Africa by 2014. There is thus a process of formalization currently taking place in South Africa. In Cape Town however, there is currently a backlog of between 300 000 to 400 000 households and this number is growing The issue of housing delivery, not only in Cape Town, but world-wide, is an aspect that attracts lots of discussion. The viewpoints on how to approach formal urban housing delivery vary from a state-led approach, to a more participatory process, to rental options, or even that informal settlements should be left as they are, as part of a city’s social fabric. But why do these viewpoints differ? And how do these divergent viewpoints influence approaches to housing delivery? In this study I will answer, ‘How stakeholders in the housing delivery process view informal settlements, and when there are divergent viewpoints, why do they differ’? Four groups of stakeholders in Cape Town were identified, namely government officials, contractors/developers, researchers and residents of informal settlements. Interviews were conducted with the stakeholders on an individual level except for the residents of informal settlements where focus groups where held in two informal settlements.
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Baralt, Jessica Isabella. "Housing La Habana Vieja: Reframing the Formal and Informal Vernacular". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78218.
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The design of housing in an urban fabric designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site requires consideration of the historic character and how each building contributes to the streetscape. Beyond the facade, one discovers the unique story of each parcel through the transformations that its residents have enacted over many centuries in order to accommodate greater density and the evolution of family structures. One might even find a record of building periods following a hurricane, for example, inscribed by hand on a column in the shared patio for the collective memory of current and future tenants. These transformations are almost all realized through self-effort construction and are a community-building exercise. Unfortunately, the paradox that accompanies the informal typologies to construct additional housing is destructive more often than not. The additions to and division of the highly articulated residential architecture in Havana have a pervasive impact on the building structure and exacerbates the decay of the built environment. The formal typologies established to define thresholds and transition between public and private spaces are as much a part of the social landscape as the informal insertions. Housing la Habana Vieja calls for a reconciliation of the architectural heritage with contemporary building attitudes in its design for multi-family housing in the historic city center of Cuba.
This project addresses the housing crisis in Havana and proposes a resolution that is suited to the "economy of means, both material and aesthetic,"to appropriate the design philosophy of Cuban-American architect Belmont Freeman. The context investigates the underpinnings of housing attitudes by identifying milestones and gaining perspective from dialogue with the residents of la Habana Vieja. Documenting the formal and informal typologies allowed for a comparison of both their spatial implications and their performance, or function. The design proposal explores the intersection of these typologies to manifest the social behaviors and cultural values in the definition of shared and private space. The formal typologies engage the transitional qualities of space by layering building elements as thresholds to private realms. The informal typologies are engaged in the construction of habitable space by activating the immediate built environment through the addition and multiplication of planes. To design at the corner of the past and present is to preserve the vernacular and brandish the opportunities that the future holds for Housing la Habana Vieja.Master of Architecture
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Jikazana, Mzobanzi Elliot. "Living condition in informal settlements: the case of Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Cape Town, South Africa". Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1016213.
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The study examines the issue of living conditions in informal settlements, using the case study of Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Cape Town. Affordability, lack of space, job related issues, a relatively small formal housing stock available in many urban centres, and deregulation, in terms of both access to land and finance, forced lower income groups to seek accommodation in informal settlements. Here people are exposed to unhealthy living conditions. The study reveals that living in informal settlements often poses significant health risks. Sanitation, food storage facilities and drinking water quality are often poor, with the result that inhabitants are exposed to a wide range of pathogens and houses may act as breeding grounds for insect vectors. In informal settlements people often live in temporary homes constructed with impermanent, basic materials. These inhabitants frequently have little option but to live on marginal land (flood plains or steep slopes, for example), with the consequence that they are the first to suffer the effects of cyclones and floods. In addition, a combination of overcrowding, the use of open fires and flammable buildings leads to danger from accidental fires, burns and scalding. The post-apartheid South African government has tried a number of housing initiatives to help alleviate the housing problem since 1994 when it came to power. These have included the Botshabelo Accord (1994), the Housing White Paper in 1995, the National Urban and Reconstruction Housing Agency in 1995, the Housing Subsidy Scheme in 1995, the Housing Act No. 107 of 1997 and the Policy on People’s Housing Process (1998). The government set itself a target of delivering one million houses within five years. By all indications the government did not fully comprehend the gravity of the problem in relation to available resources. In 2004, the Department of Housing declared its intention to eradicate informal settlements in South Africa by 2014. This followed the unprecedented housing backlog, proliferation of informal settlements, social exclusion and the inability of municipalities to provide basic infrastructure to urban poor households. However, despite these bold interventions by government, the study demonstrates that the provision of low-cost housing can be viewed as a wicked problem. Wicked problems are described to be “ill-defined, ambiguous, and associated with strong moral, political and professional issues”. The study, therefore, concludes that given the complexities surrounding the provision of low-cost housing in South Africa, the government’s ambitions to resolve housing backlogs by 2014 appear to be a far-fetched dream.
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Diaz, Ruiz Claudia E. (Claudia Esperanza). "Formal informal sector responses for housing low-income people in Colombia". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65696.
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Mulder, Idelette. "Realizing the right to housing". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78584.
Abstract (sommario):
In the South African context, the number of informal
settlements are increasing. A problem arises when
one observes the conditions that informal settlers
are forced to live in, which are diminishing livelihoods
and do not fulfill basic human needs. Informal
settlements are described as parts of a city that
have been neglected and that have been illegally
occupied by the urban poor (Huchzermeyer 2006:2).
South Africa is currently experiencing a major housing
backlog and sometimes the houses that are provided
don’t satisfy human needs. It is important to
provide elements that will improve the livelihoods
of the residents. Thus, the aim is to provide people
with elements that not only provide protection
against natural elements but also make a positive
contribution to the livelihoods of the residents.Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Nwankama, Nwankama Wosu. "The use of outdoor spaces in an informal settlement in Metropolitan Aba /". Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69778.
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In spite of its spontaneous and improvised character, the informal sector has provided virtually the only appropriate housing, in terms of the organization of the outdoor space, for the urban poor of the developing countries. Through an analysis of the outdoor spaces in Eziukwu-Aba, a low-income and informal settlement in Aba, Nigeria, this thesis investigates the organization and mode of use of outdoor spaces, in relation to the day-to-day activities of the urban poor. It focuses on the patterns of outdoor spaces, the categories of activities found in them and the periods of time of the occurrence of the activities.The findings of this study are compared with those of earlier studies, and the broader implications of these findings on contemporary low-income urban housing in the developing countries are briefly outlined. This study posits that for the urban low-income group of the developing countries, (a) usable space takes precedence over aesthetics and permanence and (b) housing and environmental quality in terms of construction standards are of little significance, compared with employment.
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MUNOZ, VELOZA MONICA ALEXANDRA. "Looking to the past to design the future: the informal built environment in Colombia. Design Process Innovation through collective and collaborative knowledge". Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/11583/2973089.
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Chitengi, Howard S. "Deriving lessons for urban planning and housing delivery from the resilience of informal housing systems in Zambia". Thesis, University of Dundee, 2015. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a0f283ed-de59-4b8f-89d8-5380a9b919ae.
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The study explores the factors that sustain urban informal housing resilience to draw lessons for enhancement of housing provision. This is in response to the challenge in housing provision evidenced in the burgeoning informal housing delivery system that characterise most developing countries. Using a case study approach, involving two informal settlements in Lusaka City, Zambia, the study examines the push and pull factors that influence the resilience. This is premised on the argument that identification of the factors sustaining the resilience holds the key to making the planning system reflective of the context in which housing needs, demands and access abilities are embedded. To this end, grounded on both literature and empirical interrogations, the study shows informal housing resilience is sustained by several factors of which the following are pertinent. The study demonstrates regulatory frameworks, land property rights, contractual practices and fiscal policies which shape the general context of housing development to be influencing factors of the informal housing resilience. In this regard, the study suggests provision of housing that meets the needs of different groups and attainment of sustainable neighbourhoods, can mainly be reached through flexibilities in standards and adaptive governance approach that blend in social-cultural financing and contractual practices, building methods, innovations and land delivery systems. Besides the study shows informal housing resilience to be sustained by urban planning frameworks which are not amenable to contemporary approaches like partnerships, participation, collaborations and decentralisation for housing finance provision. In this view the study suggests new changes and approaches to housing governance anchored on these planning principles. The study further shows that informal housing resilience is influenced by location and internal structuring of residential areas which are incompatible with local dwelling contexts. Accordingly, the study demonstrates the common strategies of eviction, demolitions or relocations employed by planners and policy makers as a display of obliviousness to the realities that make people reside in particular localities considered ‘unauthorised’. In regard of this, the study suggests new changes and approaches to the planning of human settlements to include adaptation of local and social-cultural dwelling contexts and proximity concerns in lay out plans and patterns.
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Stevens, Lucy. "Informal settlements in Gauteng : social differentiation and the impact of housing policy". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248984.
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Van, Staden Jan-Willem. "The sustainability of current housing strategies with specific reference to informal settlement". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52028.
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Assignment (MA ) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Informal settlements are a common feature of the urban landscape in contemporary South Africa and constitute one of the biggest challenges to urban planning and management at present. The political and legislative changes over the past decade have altered the approach to the management of informal settlements. This study starts out by examining the global trends and theory of urbanization, with special focus on the Third World. The various legal and policy frameworks relating to informal settlement and housing, as well as the implications thereof on urban management, are also examined. The assignment then proceeds to analyze the applicability and effectiveness of structured, formalized planning with regard to the management of informal settlement. The said analysis is followed by recommendations for the management of informal settlement, based on the preceding chapters. These recommendations suggest the following: Planners and authorities should be more proactive m planning for informal settlements. The applicability of individualized services should be reconsidered due to affordability and the inability of individualized facilities to cater for high levels of immigration. The study finally exanunes current strategies employed within the Cape Metropolitan Area, with special reference to the "Fast Tracking" process applied by the Helderberg Municipality.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: lnformele nedersettings is 'n algemene gesig in die stedelike landskap van Suid-Afrika en is tans een van die grootste uitdagings in die veld van beplanning. Die politieke en wetlike veranderinge oor die afgelope dekade het groot veranderinge in die benadering en bestuur van inforrnele vestiging tot gevolg gehad. Die werkstuk begin deur die huidige globale neigings en teoriee oor verstedeliking aan te spreek, met spesifieke verwysing na die Derde Wereld. Die verskeie wetlike- en beleidsraamwerke waarin inforrnele vestiging en behuising gereguleer word, asook die implikasies daarvan, word ook bestudeer. Die werkstuk analiseer ook vervolgens die toepaslikheid en effektiviteit van gestruktureerde en geforrnaliseerde beplanning ten opsigte van inforrnele vestiging. Die genoemde analise word gevolg deur sekere voorstelle wat gemaak word aangaande die bestuur van inforrnele vestiging. Hierdie voorstelle sluit die volgende in: Beplanners en owerhede moet meer pro-aktief wees ten opsigte van bestuur en beplanning van inforrnele vestiging Die toepaslikheid van dienste, wat fokus op individuele huishoudings, moet heroorweeg word aangesien dit onbekostigbaar vir beide verbruiker en verskaffer kan wees. Hierdie dienste is ook rue in staat om die invloei van mense te hanteer soos gemeenskaplike dienste nie. Laastens word sekere van die strategiee wat aangewend word in die Kaapse Metropolitiaanse Area ten opsigte van die bestuur van informele vestiging ook bestudeer, met spesifieke verwysing na die "Fast Tracking" proses soos aangewend deur die Helderberg Munisipaliteit.
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Nóbrega, Catarina Vanessa Cardoso de. "A problemática da habitação informal em Luanda". Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11696.
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Hajian, Hanieh. "A toolkit for prioritising interventions in informal settlement upgrades". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25282.
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Informal settlements are more than just a collection of corrugated iron units. They are not a building type but an urban phenomenon that is prevalent in South Africa due to reasons such as housing backlog (Huchzermeyer, 2010:132) and the need for livelihood (Huchzermeyer, 2011:33). It offers choice, it gives people what they want and it is affordable (Mills, 2012:1). “Informalization is a process where the poor evade rules to produce outcomes that they need, but that are otherwise too controlled for them to reach” (Cross, 2005:3). Urbanisation in South Africa is increasing every day (Mills, 2012:1) and the poor in shacks continue to deliver housing to themselves using informal mechanisms (Cross, 2005:2). There is a need to recognise and appreciate the economic, social and environmental benefits that informal settlements can bring to the urbanisation process (Mills 2012, pp1). Informal housing exists due to the gap in the market where the poor are unable to afford the available kind of housing (Cross, 2005:3). One must understand that formalising the informal does not always have to be through eradication of existing slums according to MDG seven Target 11 (Huchzermeyer, 2011:16) and it can also take place as an in situ upgrading (Huchzermeyer, 2011:30). It can sometimes be an “invisible” form of development of the community which leads to a self-sustaining future upgrade such as project that Nabeel Hamdi pioneered namely ‘the Buffalo Project’ (Hamdi, 2010:106). Sometimes the existing abandoned structures such as a community hall can be reactivated, resulting in an improvement of an area in terms of addressing the needs of the community for a market space (Hamdi, 2010:109) or changing the appearance of an informal settlement resulting in a change in people’s perceptions of the area (Feireiss, 2011:114). In this way the “small change” can grow over time and result in the development of an entire settlement by its own residents. This dissertation explores the importance of the architectural facilitator as the “missing” profession amongst other professionals who are involved with upgrading projects such as architects, engineers, NGOs, government entities, private stakeholders and many more (Hamdi, 2010:96). The architectural facilitator will be able to accommodate the gaps that have been challenging the Upgrade of the informal settlements in South Africa by creating an understanding between the issues that exist in an informal settlement, prioritising the needs and selecting interventions that address the most pressing needs in an informal settlement. The aim is to create a universal understanding of how one can approach the issue of upgrading informal settlements in order to derive a strategic framework that will lead to a long-term sustainable development. A revised toolkit is introduced to guide the decision-makers such as the Architects, government entities or anyone with an understanding of Architecture, to be able to organise their findings in a prioritised manner and implement interventions according to what the priority needs in the context are. The important thing to highlight in this paper is the theoretical importance of livelihoods to the understanding of poverty in the urban context and the implication of these theories in practice (Hamdi, 2010:185). Therefore, designing an upgrade plan and intervention which will be a long-term project, accepted by the community and accommodating the community’s need for livelihood. Topics such as ownership through tenure security and identifying existing nodes of energy are the main focus of this thesis document.Dissertation (MSc (Applied Science) )--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Coccato, Marcelo. "Alternatives to home ownership : rental and shared sub-markets in informal settlements, Resistencia, Argentina". Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23976.
Abstract (sommario):
Most developing countries have based their housing strategies on ownership. Approaches they have adopted, such as sites and services or upgrading schemes, rely basically on ownership through self-help. Yet, most of these efforts have proved inadequate to cope with the increasing demand for urban housing. In this context, informal settlements seem to provide the cheapest and more 'affordable' ownership options for the poor. Nevertheless, home ownership, even in its squatter form, demands time, investment, and long term commitment; a luxury that some households simply cannot afford.Based on qualitative research conducted in three low income barrios of informal origin, this study looks at the kind of non-ownership-oriented solutions available for the poor in Resistencia a provincial capital in Northeast Argentina. On the demand side, findings suggest that for some households rental or shared housing is the only choice. For others, on the contrary, it seems to be a matter of preference, a way to avoid the chores of ownership. On the supply side, the study unveils a fairly wide spectrum of choices, with options ranging from a bed in a house to rooming houses of up to 15 rooms. While some of the landlords are relatively wealthy, others are just as poor, or poorer than their tenants.
Rental and shared alternatives are far from being 'ideal' housing solutions. Under certain conditions, however, they result in reasonable short-term options that, apart from generating extra income for small landlords, contribute to diversify the supply of cheap accommodation for poor households.
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Gatabaki-Kamau, Rose. "The politics of an expanding informal housing submarket in Nairobi, Kenya : the informal development of a middle-income settlement, 1961-1993". Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.674923.
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Sáez, Giraldez Elia, Calderón José García e Peña Fernando Roch. "La ciudad desde la casa: ciudades espontáneas en Lima". Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. Instituto de la Vivienda, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/314581.
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Este texto se basa en la investigación "Vivienda como generadora de ciudad en Latinoamérica: asentamientos informales en Lima-Perú", llevada a cabo en el Departamento de Urbanismo y Ordenación de Territorio, de la ETS de Arquitectura, de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, con el apoyo del Plan Propio de Ayudas al Personal Investigador en Formación de la UPM, en colaboración con la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, en Lima.Los asentamientos informales en Lima surgen de la colocación de casas de estera en el desierto, en condiciones de precariedad y pobreza. Sin embargo, en estas siete décadas de existencia se han transformado en barrios relativamente integrados a la ciudad y con un considerable nivel de desarrollo. En esta investigación se describe cómo se ha generado un tejido urbano donde los procesos habituales de planificación, de la gran escala a la pequeña, de la ciudad a la casa (urbanización-parcelación-edificación) se ven invertidos encontrando, en esta inversión, el mecanismo clave de su desarrollo. La casa de estera, en origen el único material para asentarse en el territorio, se convierte, más allá de un techo para sus ocupantes, en una estrategia para crear ciudad. La vivienda es taller o tienda, aportando esos usos al tejido urbano; cambia de funciones según las necesidades de los habitantes; crece a medida que se densifica el barrio, muta su tipología (de unifamiliar a colectiva) o de carácter (de rural a urbana) cuando el asentamiento pasa de pueblo a barrio. La casa crece al tiempo que crece la ciudad que forma; ambos se transforman mutuamente y esta simbiosis confiere al tejido su dinamismo y capacidad para evolucionar.
In Lima, informal settlements emerge from the construction of straw houses in the desert under poverty and precarious conditions. However, after seven decades of existence, they have transformed into relatively integrated neighborhoods in the city, with considerable level of development. This article describes how an urban fabric emerges within inverted planning processes, from large to small scales, from the city to the house (urbanization-division-consruction), being this inversion the engine of its development. Straw houses, the only material that enables communities to settle in the territory, apart from offering shelter, have become a strategy for city making. Housing is either a workshop or a store, a contribution to the urban fabric; it also changes its functions according to the needs of dwellers; housing expands as the neighborhood densifies, transforming its typology (from house to group home) or nature (rural to urban) when the settlement changes from village to neighborhood. The house expands as the city grows; both elements transform each other, giving dynamism to urban fabric, as well as ability to evolve.
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Steeves, Jeannette Frost. "Examination of Universal Design in Kitchens and Bathrooms of the Housing and Urban Development Demonstration Program Elderly Cottage Housing Opportunity". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77131.
Abstract (sommario):
Appropriate housing for the aging American population is a timely topic of research in both housing and gerontology. Universal design is an innovation in housing design that is gaining interest from both industries.
This research examines the effectiveness of universal design features that have been identified by experts in the field of aging, housing, and universal design as important to resident and caregiver participants of the ECHO demonstration housing program.
A national survey was conducted that included all available current residents of the HUD ECHO houses and their caregivers. The relationships between age, effectiveness of universal design features, health and dependency were investigated. Quantitative results include some confounding relationships, and plausible explanations.
A qualitative analysis, based on on-site and telephone interviews, and tape recordings of those interviews with residents and their caregivers, as well as architectural drawings, observation, and photographs of the ECHO houses provided additional details. The qualitative approach indicated that many of the universal design features recommended by the experts consulted satisfactorily met the needs of residents and/or their caregivers. It also revealed, however that some features were not considered important by residents and caregivers, some were not reported as present (when they were documented by the researcher as present), and at least one HUD-specified universal design feature was not provided by ECHO houses.
Another aspect of the qualitative perspective addressed the health of the residents. Health characteristics are presented in the context of their effect on dependency. Phase II dependency task information was compared to that reported in phase I, and improvement and decline was noted.
Conclusions, and Implications that elaborate on findings, and future research is recommended for taking this research to the next level.Ph. D.
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Thompson, Alice. "Putting 'accommodating' families in the picture : housing, informal care and secondary student homelessness /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19826.pdf.
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Meier, Robert. "Perceptions of Faculty-Student Informal Mentoring Relationships". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3761.
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Perceptions of Faculty-Student Informal Mentoring Relationship
This qualitative study examined the informal mentoring relationships between faculty and students at two small, faith-based, liberal arts campuses. Perceptions of both faculty and students’ views of informal mentoring were studied. The research questions further explored the factors that encouraged or discouraged faculty-student informal mentoring as well as the role of on-campus faculty housing. Student participants were selected after completing an online survey regarding their perception of connection with professors at the campus location. Faculty participants were selected after completing an online survey regarding their perception of how much time they spent with students outside the classroom. From these responses, nine students and nine faculty members were selected and agreed to participate in semi-structured interviews. Recognizing the power of story to communicate rich biographical moments, a narrative inquiry approach to data collection and data analysis was utilized and triangulated with observation, field notes, and historical document review. Interviews were analyzed using three cycles of coding that generated the resulting themes. Eight themes were identified from the data and include intentionality towards care and concern, the importance of relationship building, investment of time, size of campus, spaces that contribute to informal mentoring, the role of on-campus faculty housing, blurred lines, and hindrances to connection. Additionally, the experience of faith-based student development, student-faculty relationships on faith-based campuses, the notion of vocational calling, and impacts on informal mentoring are explored.
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Mushumbusi, Medard Zephyrin. "Formal and Informal Practices for Affordable Urban housing : Case study: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania". Doctoral thesis, KTH, Samhällsplanering och miljö, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-31949.
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This thesis attempts to ascertain the magnitude of the urban housingproblem in Tanzania and endeavours to evaluate the strategies that thegovernment has been employing to address this problem. Informal andformal practices in urban housing are compared. The role of networksand power relations are explored and discussed in relation to how theymay facilitate the provision of urban housing. By looking at urbanhousing from a governance perspective, the thesis explores thepotentials for delivery of urban housing A case study is carried out, looking at the housingpractices in urban areas from the perspective of actors and theirinstitutional domains of action. The aim is to ascertain the extent towhich the government, through its policies and through engagement ofother actors, could facilitate the supply of urban housing. The roles ofdifferent actors in the delivery and regulation of urban housing areinvestigated in the process of institutionalizing housing production. The study comprises eight chapters. The first twochapters present an introduction and the conceptual and theoreticalunderpinnings on which the research is based. Chapter three discusseshousing strategies in Tanzania and attempts to evaluate the regulatoryframework within which urban housing is provided. Chapter fourpresents the research methodology. Chapter five discusses findingsfrom the studied documents and findings from interviews with keypersons in the government and in the construction industry. Chaptersix presents findings from the case study areas. Chapter sevendiscusses findings from case study areas and uses findings fromchapter five as corroborating evidence. Chapter eight givesrecommendations including areas for further research. The main outcome of the study is that urban housing isstill far from being satisfactory despite different strategies and landand governance reforms by the government of Tanzania. The formalsystem is weak and the roles of key public actors are still bureaucratic,blurred and sometimes conflicting. As a result, there is littleparticipation of private actors and the civil society in the production ofurban housing. The thesis has found out that informal practices forurban housing tend to complement the weakening capacity of theformal system. However, the thesis argues that although the informalsystem of governance for urban housing is consolidating it proceedswithout being properly guided. Based on these findings, somerecommendations are given for policy intervention, and some areas forfurther/ future research are identified.QC 20110330
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Nziweni, Andy Thabo. "The effects of prevailing attitudes to informal settlements on housing delivery in Cape Town". Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2549.
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Thesis (MTech (Architectural Technology))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017.Informal settlements are increasing in the cities of the global South in line with the rapid rate of urbanisation that is taking place in countries of this region. The growth of informal settlements in these countries has been exacerbated by factors that are unique to this region, factors such as scarcity of resources, colonial legacies and rapid urbanisation. Cape Town, a city that relates to the global South both in terms of geographical location and socio-economic context, has also seen a rapid growth of informal settlements, particularly in the last two decades. Like other cities in this region, Cape Town has ambitions of being regarded as a global city. Global cities are modelled on cities of the global North such as London, New York and Tokyo. Beyond the economic prestige that is generally associated with the cities of the global North, the imagery that they conjure up is also seen as an inspiration to be emulated by cities across the world, and it does not include informal settlements. As such, informal settlements generate a host of attitudes. Attitudes towards informal settlements don’t just emanate from political authorities, but emanate from across the spectrum that constitutes inhabitants and interest groups in these cities, including the creators of informal settlements themselves. These individuals and interests, according to their social standing and thus influence, have varying degrees of agency in the matters related to informal settlements. The aim in this study is to probe the effect of these attitudes on housing delivery to the poor. Attitudes not only influence the choice of what is regarded as the norm, but also how any entity that is regarded as the ‘other’ is evaluated. Almost without exception, cities that have been characterised by large numbers of informal settlements have attempted, without success, to eradicate informal settlements from their urban fabrics. An overarching assumption in this study is that the resilience of informal settlements says something about their necessity, and the failure by some, to recognise this necessity or the utilitarian value of informal settlements is influenced by attitudes. This research is done by first using a literature review to elucidate on: • the social condition, that is, the phenomenon of informal settlements, • the relevant theories applicable to the academic field the thesis is anchored in (architecture) and other social orders impacting architecture such as modernism, • the construct of attitudes and its impacts on beliefs, evaluations and perceptions on the affect of objects. The Joe Slovo informal settlement is then used as an analytic case study to investigate the effects of attitudes on the dynamics that have seen the site being transformed into what had been conceived as a prototype for transforming informal settlements to formal housing. The study shows that such transformations, although often carried out in the name of changing the lives of the inhabitants of informal settlements, do not necessarily entail them remaining at the site post its transformation. In the case of Joe Slovo, it actually resulted in a sizeable number of the original inhabitants being relocated to a new, less favourable site.
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Bhanjee, Tariq. "Upgrading an informal settlement the role of tenure security in Mahaiyawa, Kandy, Sri Lanka /". [Vancouver, British Columbia] : School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/318361971.html.
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Rao, Mala R. "Builders in the private sector : a case study of Bangalore, India /". This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02162010-020019/.
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Maribbay, Annalyn. "The house building activities of the informal sector : a case study in Las Pinas City, Philippines". Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31027.
Abstract (sommario):
House building activities of the informal sector constitutes the acquisition, consolidation and use of building materials and labor that may contravene existing standards, but affords them a coping mechanism to a dynamic urban environment. Studies show that the informal housing sector is largely responsible for most of the housing stock catering for the low-income families.The research aims at understanding the house building activities of the informal sector and is limited to identifying and describing the building materials and building methods employed, together with its underlying networks.
The case study in the informal community of Sitio Pugad Lawin, Las Pinas City, Philippines, found that, the houses were built by its owners with friends and relatives or by small contractors. They used simple timber framing methods, and combinations of indigenous, conventional and non-conventional building materials for the housing elements.
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Pacheco, Diogo Filipe Neto. "Assentamento industrial informal - um outro olhar". Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19079.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Dos prazerosos campos periféricos explorados por casas senhoriais e ordens religiosas à sua progressiva ocupação industrial, permanecem expectantes nos tecidos da cidade galgada colina abaixo, colina acima, interstícios urbanos cercados por um skyline, quase sempre povoado de edifícios díspares em escalas e épocas, como é notório no Vale de Santo António, contexto de análise e intervenção do presente trabalho. No alto do antigo vale escuro que desce serpenteante da Graça ao Tejo, um assentamento industrial informal, desvenda um fenómeno cravado nos muros e nas pessoas que habitam em redor dos terrenos em tempos espontaneamente ocupados e cultivados junto dos núcleos industriais onde trabalhavam. Pulsante, propõe-se operar cirurgicamente este coração de vivência informal de forma a afirmar a sua organicidade neste senescente território que se almeja revitalizado e integrado na heterogénea cidade.Assim, incorporados no conjunto, intenta-se a criação de uma Casa como edifício ordinário e de um Equipamento Comunitário como extraordinário, ocupados por cheios e vazios mutáveis do ponto de vista sincrónico e diacrónico que não só respondam às necessidades da sociedade contemporânea relativas ao habitar e sociabilizar, mas também enfatizem com um outro olhar crítico e interpretativo os (pre)conceitos identitários face aos bairros informais e precários transversais ao tempo e ao espaço.
From the joyful countryside exploited by manor-houses and religious orders to the progressive industrial occupation, it remains expectant in the city fabrics, uphill, downhill, urban interstices surrounded by a skyline, always populated with disparate buildings, scale and epoch wise, as it is noticeable in Santo António valley, context of analysis and intervention of the present work. From the top of the old dark valley, which meandering descends from Graça to Tagus, an informal industrial settlement unveils a phenomenon embedded on the walls, such as on those who lives around the sites where once before were spontaneously occupied and farmed by the industrial working areas. Pulsating, it is here proposed to surgically operate this heart of informal living in order to assert its organicity in this senescent territory which craves to become revitalized and integrated in the heterogeneous city.Therefore, incorporated into the whole, IX it is of intention to create a House as an ordinary building, as well as a Community Equipment as an extraordinary one, occupied by mutable filleds and voids, from a synchronic and diachronic point of view which not only respond to the needs of the contemporary society regarding dwelling and socialize, but also emphasize with another critical and interpretive point of view the (pre)identity concepts vis-a-vis the informal and precarious neighborhoods transversal to time and space.
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Ezeanah, Uyi. "The delivery of quality housing in Benin City : the influence of formal and informal institutions". Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19805/.
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Waldrep, Michael. "Informal housing in New York City : a spatial history of squats, lofts, and illegal conversions". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90112.
Abstract (sommario):
Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-142).
This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the notion of informal urbanization- normally applied to discussions of cities in the developing world-is equally effective in describing a range of housing practices in New York City, one of the wealthiest, most prototypically urban cities in the globe. The model of a binary, or gradient, between the "formal" and "informal" cities has been remarkably productive in many contexts, but has seen little use in the study of U.S. Cities. The thesis provides a definition of informal housing, based upon that of the international development community, and applies this definition to three instances in New York City it proposes fit. By unifying diverse practices and histories, I argue that informal housing in the city has been a persistent element that can be found across classes, architectural typologies, geographies, and historical moments. The methods of the thesis include consulting from primary sources (news reports and planning studies), secondary academic planning texts, conducting interviews with participants and planners, and producing my own relevant photographs and maps. These materials are synthesized into four chapters. The first provides background on the notion of informality, and offers a modified definition of the phenomenon that unifies the New York examples with their international counterparts. Chapter two charts the birth of informality with the codification, in the late years of the 19th century, of moral and physical standards in the immigrant-populated tenements of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It then charts the reoccupation of those same tenement spaces, without capital or legal tenure, by the often politically motivated squatters in the Upper West and Lower East Sides in the latter half of the 20th century. Chapter three provides a history, from 1960 to the present, of the informal transformation of commercial loft spaces to residences in SoHo and Brooklyn and describes the effects of these conversions on the neighborhoods in which they occurred. Chapter four demonstrates how the low density built form of Queens was developed in reaction to the tenement era, and how it is currently being informally reconstructed into a dense, urban space for marginal immigrants, despite some typical (and atypical) challenges to that informal use. The thesis concludes by arguing that in each case-despite differences in built form, geography, users' incomes and the historical context-informality, as understood in the developing world, is present in New York. Further, it argues that the official reactions to these liminal cases of housing- variously, repression, neglect, and accommodation-provides a history of the planning regime's shift from prescription to acceptance of unofficial action. It calls for a greater unity of discussion and collaboration between those planners, architects, and urban thinkers working on cities in the U.S. and those whose expertise centers on cities in the global south. Finally, the thesis closes by summarizing some potential lessons from the experience of informal housing in New York City over its long and varied history, and offers guidance, informed by these lessons, on how the city might address its present informal housing boom.
by Michael Waldrep.
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Akdoğan, Gizem. "Dealing with rapid development creation of the informal urban economy and gecekondu housing in Istanbul /". [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1468058.
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Bullard, Stevan. "Informal Development in Cairo, the View from Above: A Case Study Using Aerial Photo Interpretation to Examine Informal Housing in the Imbaba District of Cairo". unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04262006-150413/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Dona J. Stewart, committee chair; Elaine J. Hallisey, Jeremy Crampton, committee members. Electronic text (135 p. : maps (some col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 18, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-134).
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Bettencourt, Andrea Carina de Almeida. "Qualificação e reabilitação de áreas urbanas críticas. Os musseques de Luanda". Master's thesis, Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/3654.
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Tese de Mestrado em ArquitecturaOs musseques de Luanda, assentamentos de carácter informal localizados maioritariamente nas áreas peri-urbanas da cidade, são a representação física da segregação social no espaço urbano desta cidade capital de Angola, localizada na parte ocidental da África austral. A segregação racial e de classes no período colonial, os processos de imigração e o êxodo rural, as consequências na economia das longas décadas de guerra colonial e civil, a própria orientação da economia nacional são aspectos que estão na base para o entendimento da situação urbana actual de Luanda. As falhas nas soluções e na implementação dos planos urbanísticos que foram sendo desenvolvidos, a própria legislação existente e as políticas de ordenamento do território ou a sua inexistência têm vindo a contribuir, de certo modo, para facilitar a expansão e densificação de forma acelerada e desordenada dessas áreas. Luanda tem hoje cerca de 6 milhões de habitantes, dos quais cerca de 4 milhões vivem em áreas informais, carentes de infra-estruturas e de condições mínimas de habitabilidade. A problemática habitacional e os elevados níveis de pobreza que se vivem nas extensas áreas de musseque em Luanda e no restante território nacional, levaram as Nações Unidas a considerar Angola como um dos alvos no cumprimento das metas do milénio de luta contra a pobreza. O caso dos musseques de Luanda é comparável por exemplo, às favelas do Brasil, aos chamados “caniços” de Moçambique ou aos slums da África do Sul e da Índia. Mesmo em alguns países mais desenvolvidos, como Portugal e outros países da Europa, é possível encontrarem-se casos pontuais de áreas urbanas informais ou de génese ilegal. Estes obrigam a intervenções que podem servir de referência na procura de soluções a implementar em países em desenvolvimento. Para se formularem princípios de intervenção para o melhoramento de áreas urbanas informais é importante ter-se em consideração quer paradigmas teóricos quer referências de outras experiências de casos semelhantes. A aplicação destes princípios no caso particular de Luanda, para ser bem sucedida deve ter em consideração os traços específicos desta realidade e a forte influência de hábitos nãoocidentalizados e de cultura rural no modo de vida da população.
ABSTRACT - The slums in Luanda, known as “musseque”, the informal settlements mostly located outskirts of the city, are a physical representation of the social segregation in urban areas of the capital city of Angola, which is located on the western side of the southern Africa. The racial and social segregation on the colonial period, the rural exodus, the economic consequences of the long decades of colonial and civil war, are the basic aspects to understand the actual urban situation in Luanda. The flaws in urban planning that have been developed, the existing legislation and the policy planning, or the inexistence of them, have been, in some way, contributing to accelerate the expansion and densification of the non-planning and disordered areas. Today, Luanda as about 6 million inhabitants, of whom 4 million are slum dwellers living in informal settlements, without infrastructures or minimum living conditions. The housing issue and the high rates of poverty that people dwell with in large areas of slums in Luanda and all over the country, led the United Nations to consider Angola as one of the targets in the fight against the poverty to meet the millennium goals. The slums in Luanda are comparable to the slums of Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa or the slums of India. There are also some developed countries, such as Portugal or other European countries, where is possible to find some cases with informal or illegal origin settlements needing a urban solution, that can be a reference model to find other solutions to the poor countries. To define principles to improve the informal urban areas, it is important to take into account theoretical paradigms and the experience of similar cases. The application of those principles in the specific case of Luanda’s slums, in order to succeed, it should considerate specific features of that reality and the strong influence of rural culture and non-occidentalized habits on the lifestyle of that population.
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Costa, Inah Cavalcanti Barbosa. "Habitação auto construtiva em Luanda". Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12056.
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Sompani, Thozamile Matthews. "Delivery of environmental health services to Ducats informal settlement". Thesis, Cape Technikon, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/796.
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Thesis (MTech (Environmental Health))--Cape Technikon, 2003This study provides information on the provision of environmental health services to informal housing settlements by local authorities. A standard for Environmental Health Service delivery according to Government policies and legislation has been provided. Actual environmental health services delivered to Ducats informal settlement at the time (1992), have been compared to the services that should have been delivered by law. Baseline data have been compiled by means of questionnaires, in order to assist the different levels of government in addressing the housing and environmental health needs of the Ducat community. The nature of Environmental Health and the history of informal housing, more specific that of the Ducat informal housing settlement, have been determined. Limited environmental health services were rendered to informal housing settlements occupying land illegally during 1992. These environmental health services were limited to basic sanitation, water supply and refuse removal. Only pit latrines or bucket latrines were required as a means of sanitation, tanks for water supply and skips for the disposal of waste. Amatola Regional Services Council however rendered all the environmental health services required. Other environmental health aspects such as pest control, communicable disease control, air pollution control, radiation, occupational health issues, temperature extremes, lighting, ventilation, noise, social environment, food and meat hygiene were not required. This study has provided a set of Government policies and legislation, which should be considered in rendering environmental health services for housing in future. Uncertainty of the past decade, about rendering of Environmental Health services to people occupying land illegally, still persists. The Municipal Structures Act, 117 of 1998 requires the rendering of Environmental Health services by local authorities, but it does not state whether these services should be rendered to people occupying land illegally as well. Since this has been the biggest restriction in providing environmental health services in the past, it is recommended that Government address this uncertainty.
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Makabeni, Yonela. "Environmental impacts of informal economic activities in a low cost housing development, case study of Dunoon, Cape Town". Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2874.
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Thesis (Master of Environmental Management)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.Over the past decades, environmental problems associated with low-cost housing developments have been reported on a national and global scale (see Sowman and Urquhart, 1998 and also Norville, 2003). Poor community participation in the early stages of project design and lack of public involvement in decision making regarding low cost housing development are said to have contributed to these environmental issues. The environmental issues that have been reported so far relate to escalating water quality due to poor storm water management and improper waste disposal which poses a threat to the natural environment. While there is as emerging view that the nature of environmental problems experienced in these settlements are due to a lack of participation by local people in decision making, there is virtual no studies that have located this analysis within the theoretical debate of modernist planning. The issue that has been ignored thus far is the fact that low cost housing development (in generally) still resembles the spatial pattern of both the modernist and apartheid planning orthodox. It is thus from this context that the local people are increasingly excluded from participating in decision making. This form of modernist development is contrary to the ethos of sustainable development. In essence, sustainable development, as a new development theory, also adheres to the notion of local citizenry involvement in development for the benefits of the future generation. The research study further argues that poor people need to participate in decision making regarding the design and delivery of these houses (Oelefse, 1997). Therefore, the study investigated the underlying environmental implications associated with informal economic activities in a low cost housing establishment. The research study adopted a qualitative research design and an inductive approach. Dunoon was used as a case study for the research. The study used two sampling techniques, purposive sampling and random sampling,were used. Interviews, questionnaires and observations were used to collect data from the residents, informal businesses in Dunoon and key stakeholders from the Department of Environmnental Affairs as well as City of Cape Town. The findings of the thesis illustrate that long-term environmental impacts that are visible in the low-cost housing development of Dunoon are triggered by informal economic activities that are practised by the local people to make a living. In this regard, this thesis argues that local people need to be involved in the early planning and design stages of low-cost housing development. They need to be involved in all development stages to ensure that they drive the vision of the development. Lack of involvement of the local people in the initial stages of decision-making on the project triggered severe long term environmental impacts. The study then concludes that long-term environmental impacts in Dunoon are intertwined with the escalation of informal economic activities initiated by the local people in order to cope with harsh economic realities. These informal activities are a form of reaction to the imposed version of development. Thus, the environmental problems that emerged out of this pattern of human activities must be analysed by means of conceptualising the Dunoon low-cost housing as a product of modernist planning philosophy. Based on the information gathered and discussed in this thesis, it is concluded that the low-cost housing development is a product of modernist planning.
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Neves, Sofia Laura Ornelas. "Redesenhar e requalificar o lugar informal do bairro à cidade. A habitação evolutiva como meio de ligação do bairro à cidade - Bairro do Barruncho, Odivelas". Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculadade de Arquitetura, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6935.
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Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitetura.O presente trabalho pretende desenvolver uma análise sobre a temática da habitação evolutiva, com foque na sua vertente enquanto Habitação Social, particularmente nos cenários de realojamento de bairros informais. Sobre este cenário, pretende-se desenvolver uma metodologia de intervenção estratégica segundo um processo de faseado que permita uma resolução a longo prazo da integração do Bairro do Barruncho e de toda a sua comunidade em Odivelas. Desta forma, reflete-se sobre as questões da habitação evolutiva e dos processos participativos enquanto solução de intervenção flexível, adaptável e com capacidade de gerar uma intervenção adequada às reais necessidades da área de intervenção (Bairro do Barruncho). Neste contexto, o envolvimento da população na construção e evolução da habitação permite, a longo prazo, desenvolver um forte sentimento de pertença, fundamental para o bem-estar da população, da casa e do Bairro, isto é, para um realojamento positivo e integrado. Pretende-se ainda, alertar para a necessidade de em situações de realojamento, como o caso em estudo, Bairro do Barruncho, compreender através de uma análise intensiva, o Bairro e a sua população, permitindo desenvolver uma relação entre a cultura desta população e arquitetura proposta para o novo Bairro.
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is the development of an in-depth investigation on incremental housing and its social housing aspect, particularly regarding the rehousing of existing informal, slum-like neighborhoods. A strategic intervention methodology is developed and a long-term phased process devised that will allow the integration of the Bairro do Barruncho entire community in the city of Odivelas. To achieve this goal the issues of incremental housing and participative processes are explored regarding their ability to become flexible and adaptable long term solutions that fit the actual needs of the case study area (Bairro do Barruncho) and its communities. The use of participative processes in the construction and evolution of housing will, in the long run, create a sense of ownership and belonging between the community and their homes which is vital to their overall well-being and quality of life, in other words it can lead to both a positive and integrated rehousement. Another goal of this work is alerting to the need for comprehensive and intensive analyses of both the slum neighborhood and its community in rehousing programs or initiatives. These analyses will enable the development of close relationship between the relocated community and the proposed architectural solutions for their new homes and neighborhood.
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Khuri, Naila de Rezende. "A legitimação de posse na dimensão registrária da regularização fundiária". Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19703.
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The purpose of this study is to study the legitimization of tenure regulated by Law n. 11.977 of 2009, with emphasis on the registration dimension of land regularization of informal settlements occupied by low income population. The registration dimension aims at the titling of the occupants of these settlements with the premise of conferring legal security to the possession. The paper deals with the problem of the housing deficit that gave rise to informal settlements and land regularization as an instrument of solution in the light of the right to decent housing and the right to a just city. Finally, the steps of land regularization before the Real Estate Registry and the interface with the ownership legitimation are discussed
O presente trabalho tem por finalidade o estudo do instituto da legitimação de posse, regulado pela Lei n. 11.977, de 2009, com ênfase na dimensão registrária da regularização fundiária dos assentamentos informais ocupados por população de baixa renda. A dimensão registrária visa à titulação dos ocupantes desses assentamentos com a premissa de conferir segurança jurídica à posse. O trabalho aborda a problemática do déficit habitacional que deu origem aos assentamentos informais e a regularização fundiária como um instrumento de solução à luz do direito à moradia digna e ao direito à cidade justa. Por fim, abordam-se as etapas da regularização fundiária perante o Registro de Imóveis e a interface com a legitimação da posse
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Mmakola, Monepo David. "Housing in Ivory Park : a critical assessment". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4391.
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Thesis (MPA (Public Administration))--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.105 leaves single sided printed, preliminary pages i-xii and numbered pages 1-92.Includes bibliography and list of tables and figures.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study assessed the performance of South Africa's Housing Policy in Ivory Park, an informal settlement in Midrand. The study used effectiveness, efficiency, equity, responsiveness and affordability, as criteria for assessment. Research was carried out using a literature review; and face-to-face interviews with officials from the Midrand Metropolitan Local Council, and the residents of Ivory Park who had already moved into the newly built houses. The study found that the performance of the policy in Ivory Park is mixed. From the point of view of effectiveness, the policy has had a positive impact on the lives of beneficiaries. The bigger picture of housing delivery, and the way the policy is being assessed by other spheres of government however, has reduced assessment of the policy to the numbers of housing built, and not taken sufficient consideration of the value of other elements of the policy. The greatest efficiency drawback has been the speed of implementation. The policy is moving at a relatively slow pace. The distribution of the resources of the policy has been equitable, in that the unemployed and households with irregular incomes have been reached by the housing policy. However, there have been difficulties in stimulating the local materials supply industries in the area, but efforts have gone into activating that part. The policy has been responsive, and beneficiaries are satisfied with the role played by the local authority, community organisations and contractors involved in housing delivery. Although the new houses built have not themselves adversely affected the cost of living of beneficiaries, the poverty level in the area, would continue to make services such as housing, unaffordable to households. The study recommends that in future, there be increased consultations with intended beneficiaries of a housing policy, in order to align the views of policymakers with those of beneficiaries. There is also a need to develop indicators that take into account all the objectives government pursues in the housing sector. The local authority should also track ownership of the built houses, to ensure that any change in ownership does not compromise the welfare of beneficiaries, and lead to the subsidisation of housing acquisitions of well-off households. Housing polices should have a more economic development slant, as the new services coming with housing would not have a greater impact in situations of persistent poverty.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie het die Suid-Afrikaanse Behuisingsbeleid beoordeel in Ivory Park, 'n informele nedersetting in Midrand. Hierdie beoordeling het die volgende kriteria gebruik, te wete doeltreffendheid, doelmatigheid, eweredigheid, die respons van die inwoners en bekostigbaarheid deur die inwoners. Navorsing is uitgevoer deur middel van 'n literatuuroorsig en persoonlike onderhoude met Raadslede van die Midrandse Metropolitaanse Raad asook die inwoners van Ivory Park wat alreeds in hul nuutgeboude wonings ingetrek het. Die studie het gemengde bevindings ten opsigte van die beleid binne Ivory Park opgelewer. Vanuit 'n doelmatigheidsoogpunt gesien het die beleid 'n positiewe uitwerking op die lewens van die begunstigdes uitgeoefen. Binne die groter geheel van behuisingsvoorsiening, asook die manier waarop die beleid beoordeel word deur ander regeringsfere, blyk dit egter dat die beleid slegs beoordeel word op grond van die aantal wooneenhede gelewer sonder om die ander elemente van die behuisingsbeleid te verdiskonteer. Die implementeringspoed van die beleid was die grootste nadeel vanuit 'n doeltreffendheidsoogpunt gesien aangesien die beleid teen 'n relatiewe stadige pas beweeg. Die bronne van die beleid is eweredig versprei deurdat werkloses en huishoudings met ongereelde inkomste deur die beleid bevoordeel is. Probleme is ook ondervind met die stimulasie van plaaslike boumateriaal voorsieningsindustrieel binne die gebied, maar inisiatiewe is geloods om die gedeelte te aktiveer. Die respons van die gemeenskap, binne die konteks van behuisingsvoorsiening, dui ook op hul tevredenheid met die rol van die plaaslike owerheid, gemeenskapsorganisasies en die betrokke kontrakteurs. Alhoewel die nuwe behuising nie die lewenskoste van die begunstigdes nadelig beinvloed het nie, dra die hoe armoede vlak in die omgewing daartoe by dat behuising vir vele inwoners onbekostigbaar bly. Die studie beveel aan dat daar in die toekoms toenemend met die beoogde begunstigdes van die behuisingsbeleid gekonsulteer moet word ten einde die sienings van die beleidmakers en die begunstigdes in ooreenstemming te bring. Ontwikkelingsindikatore en regeringsdoelwitte moet ook in berekening gebring word binne die behuisingsektor. Die plaaslike owerheid moet ook die eienaarskap van die nuwe wooneenhede navolg om te verseker dat eienaarskap nie die welsyn van die begunstigdes negatief affekteer nie, of dat dit nie lei tot die subsidering van die meer gegoedes in die verkryging van wooneenhede nie. Die behuisingbeleid moet ook 'n groter ekonomiese onderbou he ten einde armoede te bekamp.
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Ferreira, Frédéric Gonçalves. "Habitar no inabitável. Casas para um planeta pequeno; Cemitério de Navotas, Manila". Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6822.
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Courela, Joana Rita Gil. "Roça Água-Izé". Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19190.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.A narrativa formal e funcional do território de São Tomé e Príncipe encontra-se, actualmente, numa desconexão acentuada da sua génese. As camadas urbanas e edificadas surgem consequentemente no território numa prática orgânica e indefinida, em oposição à assertividade formal imposta no assentamento urbano inicial da cidade, no século XVI. Terá sido, deste modo, provocada a descaracterização urbana do lugar. A coexistência do traçado, formal e informal, condenou à roça Água-Izé a presente indefinição e descaracterização urbana no território, outrora conquistada e estabelecida. A sua requalificação e reinserção no lugar provem da análise das problemáticas formais e funcionais do património em estudo, assim como, na inserção das correspondentes soluções. A regeneração desta roça, em termos teóricos, será estabelecida através de um fio condutor abrangente aos conceitos da história e da memória. Será assente nesta base científica que consistirá a formalização do objecto projectual, apresentado num carácter proeminente no território. Projectualmente, através da revitalização da estrutura pré-existente, da proposta de novos traçados urbanos e uma rede hierarquizada de espaços públicos, a roça Água-Izé adquirirá uma nova ocupação perante o território de São Tomé.
ABSTRACT: The formal and functional narrative of the territory of São Tomé and Príncipe is, currently, in a marked disconnection of its genesis. The urban and built layers consequently appear in the territory in an organic and indefinite practice, as opposed to the formal assertiveness imposed in the initial urban settlement of the city, in the XVI century. This would have led to the urban de-characterization of the place. The coexistence of the formal and informal trait, condemned to the “roça Água-Izé” the present indefinition and urban discharacterization in the territory, once conquered and established. Its requalification and reinsertion in the place comes from the analysis of the formal and functional problems of the heritage under study, as well as the insertion of the corresponding solutions. The regeneration of this “roça”, in theoretical terms, will be established through a comprehensive guideline to the concepts of history and memory. Will be based on this scientific basis, which will consist of the formalization of the project object, presented in a prominent character in the territory. In terms of the project, through the revitalization of the pre-existing structure, of the proposal of new urban tracts and a hierarchical network of public spaces, the “roça Água-Izé” will acquire a new occupation towards the territory of São Tomé.
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Fannin, Nicole M. "bahay sa buhay [from house to life]: exploring architecture's role in informal settlement in Payatas, Philippines". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276952543.
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Shaboodien, Azher. "Project implementation profile tool applied to upgrading informal settlements programme projects". Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31787.
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Purpose: This research reviews the Project Implementation Profile (PIP) and explores its relevance to Upgrading Informal Settlements Programme (UISP) type projects in Cape Town. The research aims to: • Identify the most common PIP Critical Success Factors (CSF) for UISP projects, • Compare the common PIP Critical Success Factors (CSF) for UISP projects to the Construction Sector CSF • Evaluate if the PIP tool is applicable to UISP projects. • Determine if there any other critical success factors that need to be added to the CSF list that is critical to the UISP Project success Approach: A literature review was conducted to assist in identifying the common CSF in the Constructions Sector. A survey questionnaire was sent out to relevant UISP Project Managers. The survey questionnaire was based on the PIP questionnaire with additional questions regarding to the effectiveness of the PIP tool on UISP projects. The intent of the survey questionnaire is firstly to establish the common CSF for UISP projects and then evaluate the PIP effectiveness on UISP projects. Findings: Based on the research results, it was found that the high scoring CSF for UISP projects were Project Mission, Client Consultation, Technical Tasks, Monitoring and Feedback, Personal. When the high scoring CSF was compared to the Literature Based Construction Sector CSF, the following common CSF was established: Monitoring and Feedback, Client Consultation and Technical Tasks. Practical Implications: This research will give an indication of the high and low scoring CSF relevant to UISP projects, which project managers and Managers in the Human Settlements industry can use to evaluate their UISP or Breaking New Ground (BNG) housing projects. Furthermore, the PIP tool may be utilised more frequently as a project quality success assurance tool in the organisation. The PIP tool has been tested and verified in a number of different industries in previous studies but never in its application to UISP or BNG projects.
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Nahrin, Kasphia. "Potential policies and strategies for reducing the environmental impacts of informal housing : an analysis of Dhaka, Bangladesh". Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620101.
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Informal housing is widespread in cities in developing countries, and can cause immediate and localised environmental impacts. However, little research has been conducted into these impacts or what can be done about them. Specifically, there is little research on which policies and strategies could be effective. This research aims to identify the environmental impacts of informal housing, and to establish the potential policies and strategies that could reduce these. The research focuses on the city of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh). It adopts a qualitative approach and uses data from a combination of primary and secondary sources, collected via site surveys and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a range of stakeholders. The research found that the amount of informal housing in Dhaka is increasing, and consequently it is creating environmental impacts, such as: loss of biodiversity; waterlogging; pollution (of water soil and air); groundwater depletion; and temperature increases. Three main policy areas which could potentially reduce these impacts were identified and tested. • Formalisation of informal housing; • Implementation of urban planning and growth management policies; and • Provision of utility services. The research found that formalising housing through inclusionary housing, slum rehabilitation, slum upgrading, site and services schemes, public-private partnership (PPP) and involvement of non-government organization (NGO)s are policies that could be effective in Dhaka. In relation to urban planning and growth management, urban intensification is not a beneficial policy, but limited peripheral development could be effective. New urban solutions and special area (Le. flood flow zones) conservation policies could also reduce environmental impacts. In terms of utility service provision, urban renewal, upgrading, incremental development, and community and NGO participation are potential policies. The research concludes that it is important to develop both organisational and financial capacity in order to reduce the environmental impacts of informal housing in Dhaka.