The Upgrading of Sheffield Road Introduction Sheffield Road is an informal settlement in Philippi, Cape Town. Situated on a road reserve near the N2 freeway, 167 families live on an overcrowded piece of city land with

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• Urban planning
• Slum Dwellers International
• Human geography
• Slum
• Joe Slovo
• Cape Town
• Shanty town
• Sheffield
• In situ
• Cape Town
• Community organization

          “Upgrading  Lives,  

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• Urban development
• Slum
• Urban decay
• Slum Dwellers International
• Slums
• Cities Alliance

THE INEVITABILITY OF INFORMALITY AND THE URGE FOR CREATIVE UPGRADING Salim Rouhana Urban Development and Resilience Specialist

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• Urban development
• Slums
• Slum
• Urban decay
• Kibera
• Favela
• Housing
• Shanty town
• Slum clearance

Informal Settlement Upgrading Towards an Incremental People Centred Approach The world population, according to UN Habitatis 6.6 billion. More than 50% of the global population live in cities and an astounding 1.

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• Urban geography
• Social programs
• Slum
• Urban decay
• Urban development
• Cities Alliance
• Housing
• Public housing
• Shanty town
• Informal sector
• Subsidized housing
• N2 Gateway

Closing Plenary - Urban Health, World Health A direct thread runs from our CityHealth 2012 Conference to the World Bank’s global role today. Managing unprecedented urbanization will be the defining challenge of this c

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• Public health
• Global health
• Megacity
• Slum
• Urban planning
• Rural health
• Slum upgrading
• Health
• Development
• Health policy

Draft WAC India Newsletter - March 2006 Issue

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• Poverty
• Hygiene
• Health
• Economics
• Sewerage
• Sanitation
• Slum upgrading
• Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association
• Slum
• Development
• Millennium Development Goals
• Socioeconomics

Tool Box Add Infrastructure – A defining characteristic of informal areas is the need for more infrastructure. Accessibility solves many problems from lack of services to the introduction of mass transit and other agen

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• Millennium Development Goals
• Brazilian society
• Urban studies and planning
• Slum upgrading
• Slums
• Favela
• Slum
• Urban agriculture
• Poverty
• Socioeconomics
• Shanty towns

Slum upgrading initiatives and its impacts on livelihoods Reflections from Nairobi Pumla Bafo

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15 POLICY CHANGE The big question is always how to translate real action in city-wide upgrading by communities on the ground into changes in policy? Policies which allow this kind of people-driven slum upgrading to be s

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Management of Existing Housing Stock – BUQS 7008 Josephine Peace Enninful, Student No1stOctober 2012 FIELD TRIP REPORT ON NATIONAL SLUM UPGRADING AND PREVENTION POLICY, KENYA: 11th – 15th September 2012 Pers

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