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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Egypt, United States of America, Norway

    The paper seeks to assess the impact of access to the land of Egypt on urban development in an attempt to identify policies and laws that can be categorized as a catalyst in urban conflict A systematicreview of Data on land tenure environment of Egypt land access land governance and tenure security the actors involved in these processes their roles the land tenure related challenges they face and measures that can be taken to address these challenges was collected at country level In the context of Egypt Access to land is deemed with obstacles confronting beneficiaries and legal procedures

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2020
    Kenya

    Rapid urbanization has led to the influx of people into urban areas as people seek better life opportunities This migration has however largely not been planned resulting in population explosions in the cities Relying on existing research on the topic and government reports this study finds that many middle and lowincome families in Kenya have ended up living in informal settlements in urban areas due to housing unaffordability The study further determines that the problem of housing is more pronounced in developing countries Studies related to this issue establish that the housing crisis c

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    United States of America, Indonesia

    The VOC Verenigde OostIndische Compagnie was both the absolutist and the pacifier as it sought to colonize Sunda Kelapa through the displacement of the indigenous population architecture and regimen the VOC was deployed catalyst to the marking of a golden era roughly spanning the 17th century through which architecture trade science and military boomed marking Jakarta a resilient harbour to the worlds finest trades Batavia modernday Jakarta welded a myriad of names endorsing its irrefutable paramount one of which Queen of the East paraphrased an allusion to its urban beauty Until its last d

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Brazil, United States of America

    The following research is based on the affirmation that urban sustainability in developing regions such as Latin America is an impossible goal to be totally achieved due to the circumstances of poverty informality slums corruption violence among others that exist there Therefore urban sustainability in the cities of this region has to be reached through survival efforts that seek to balance the existing inequalities urban justice So the first step to take is to detect and measure those inequalities in order to be able to take actions to eradicate or decrease them The research presents five

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2020
    Kenya

    Rapid urbanization has led to the influx of people into urban areas as people seek better life opportunities This migration has however largely not been planned resulting in population explosions in the cities Relying on existing research on the topic and government reports this study finds that many middle and lowincome families in Kenya have ended up living in informal settlements in urban areas due to housing unaffordability The study further determines that the problem of housing is more pronounced in developing countries Studies related to this issue establish that the housing crisis c

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Turkey, United States of America

    It is necessary for urban regeneration projects to be carried out successfully in coordination with other actors During the process of realising regeneration many actors and strategicallygiven decision play a crucial role The ways how actorsfactors are involved in the process the relationships founded among them and investigating the methods followed during the process constitute the content of this study The purpose of this study is to develop an approach with regard to the coordination established between actorsfactors that participated during the regeneration process This study covers th

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Germany, Italy

    Housing is one of the fundamental needs for human to respond their primary needs such as food rest cleaning and having family in other words everything that related to the needs of body and soul of a human Nowadays by increasing the population in the world the suitable shelter becomes a real problem In the point of economic also the prices of the houses increase too much so it is not affordable for lowincome people to have shelter easily After the revolution in Iran country there is huge immigration from the rural part to metropolitan areas Most of these peoples belong to a lowincome family

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2020
    Global

    This article investigates the relationship between the transformation of cities and the right to the city To be able to do this the problems that are created by contemporary urbanization such as social exclusion poverty and environmental degradation are discussed in the first part After that with a special focus on the period starting with the industrial revolution up until today the article explains economic and political motivations behind the urban transformation This part emphasizes how urban change under different forms of capitalism creates and deepens social inequalities in cities Th

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Algeria, France

    The new ksar of Tafilelt situated in Ghardaia in southern Algeria has attracted a lot of interest in scientific work being a neotraditional urban model that reproduces the principles of composition and spatial organization of the ksour in the pentapolis of Ghardaia This ksar embodies the adaptation between tradition and modernity it refers to the local setting of the ksourien space production contributes to the valorization of these ancient centres that date back to the XIth centuryIn parallel to the work of thesis undertaken on the neotraditional models of reference in Algeria for the n

  10. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    China, United States of America, Russia, Mexico

    Warcity relationships had long been studied by scholars regarding wars sudden impact on cities Studies typically focused on one specific events impact on urban military politics economy or society This approach however treated wars impact on cities as only temporary hindered opportunities to reveal multiple political regimes spatial competition through waroriented city planning and construction which is crucial for city development and their resultant urban form changes through time In response this study has examined city planning and construction activities during the short time gaps betw

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