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Blankestijn, Rick (author)“Upwards along the pipes” focuses on the Tamansari subdistrict in Bandung, Indonesia, in which the Cikapundung river is a central physical element, dividing the highly dense informal settlements in two. The project tries to tackle several ecological and spatial issues occuring within the site, including a large amount of (organic) waste being...master thesis 2019
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Surajaras, Paan (author)The project has been created from a strong fascination of the author who came from the developing country in South East Asia. A rapid change of a city from urbanization and over-growing population have somehow eradicated the traditional way of living. One of the best examples is in Ho Chi Minh City, in the South of Vietnam. The city is located...master thesis 2019
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Kim, Boomi (author)Slum population has increased continuously in global south. It expands onto precarious land such as floodplains, lagoon areas and so on leading to deficiency of basic facilities. Bandung is the third most populous city in Indonesia with around 26,000 slum dwellings. Kampung Tamansari in Bandung is the densest informal settlement located along...master thesis 2019
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Falco, E. (author), Zambrano-Verratti, Jesús (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author)This article explores the potential of web-based participatory mapping tools for urban planning purposes and spatial information creation in informal settlements, i.e. the slums (barrios) of Caracas, Venezuela. While an increasing use of mapping tools is found in developed countries, fewer applications are found in informal settlements of...journal article 2019
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Riungu, J. (author), Ronteltap, Mariska (author), van Lier, J.B. (author)Biochemical energy recovery using digestion and co-digestion of faecal matter collected from urine diverting dehydrating toilet faeces (UDDT-F) and mixed organic market waste (OMW) was studied under laboratory-and pilot-scale conditions. Laboratory-scale biochemical methane potential (BMP) tests showed an increase in methane production with...journal article 2019
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Ardian Wiratama, Wira (author)The exposure of flooding has been existed in several Global South countries, not particularly in Indonesia. The community which has been living in vulnerable location encounters the magnitude of flooding through times with a difficult and complicated situation to encounter the devastating impact of the disaster. Many policies and actions from...master thesis 2018
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Labrujere, Eva (author)Nairobi’s urban processes today are largely impacted by global and postcolonial forces. Its inherited planning frameworks keep contributing to the self-sustaining systems of socio-economic inequality and exclusion of the urban poor in a capitalist society. At the same time, its urban planning reflects postcolonial processes, characterised by the...master thesis 2018
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zum Felde, Mona (author), Hörmann, Beke (author)The biggest city of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, faces increasing flood<br/>risk, causing frequent sickness, loss of life, and widespread damage<br/>to property. Dar es Salaam is one of the fastest growing cities in the<br/>world. More than 70% of the residents live in informal settlements.<br/>Many of them are located in flood prone areas like...master thesis 2018
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Aranda Iglesias, Concha (author)A corridor towards sustainable urban development is a reflection about the current planning techniques and how to apply them in the African context, specifically in Mozambique. It aims to raise awareness about the necessity of an understanding and adapting of European urban theories to the context conditionants and strong cultural identity of the...master thesis 2018
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Uchil, Rajat Dinesh (author)The thesis explores the social potential of space i.e. the social logic of space to enhance resilience of society. As social resilience is defined as the capacity of society to cope, adapt or transform societal relations towards external stress, space that is a ‘construction’ and a function of the structure of society hosts the ability in...master thesis 2018
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The Confronting Informality Symposium is a student-led event sponsored by the Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy at the Department of Urbanism, TU Delft University of Technology. The symposium happens once a year and gathers experts, policy-makers, practitioners and others to discuss informal urbanisation, its political, economic and...report 2018
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Chen Bojie, Bojie (author)Urban Kampung (means Village in Indonesian) is a kind of informal settlement in Indonesian Cities. It is charactered by the high density of population and built environment, the uncontrolled development, and the poor living condition caused by the density and the tropical climate.To offer a better living condition for the residents, the design...master thesis 2017
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Reitsma, Frank (author)Housing supply in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by self-help housing in informal settlements as a consequence of rapid urban population growth in the absence of sufficient formal housing supply, bringing forth sub-standard housing conditions. Government housing strategies have not been able to halt the informal production of housing, as...master thesis 2017
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Jansen, Gerben (author)The Westfort Leprosy Colony in Pretoria, South Africa, was built by the <i>Department Publieke Werken</i> of the <i>Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek</i> in 1898-1898 under supervision of the Dutch architect Sytze Wopkes Wierda. It is the only leprosy colony of its kind that is still (almost) intact. It is part of to the national history of South...master thesis 2017
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Sha, Kritika (author)The objective of this research is to investigate to what extent the existing production of space in informal settlements is related to its social ties and economic needs, and how it can be incorporated into a strategic framework for future redevelopment schemes. This stems from the meteoric rise of informal settlements in the global south,...master thesis 2017
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Remmerswaal, N.A. (author)Can improved technology make a difference in under-served communities to improve the existing build environment in a cultural sustainable way and make possible endogenous solutions? The technical research paper highlights the technical research done to answer this particular question. The research, that focuses on technical solutions to serve...master thesis 2015
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Van Doorn, J.S. (author)Since the 1950s the city of Lima, capital of Peru, has drastically grown both in size and inhabitants due to a process of rapid urbanization, by which the city has expanded horizontally in an informal way. Informal settlements have occupied peripheral areas, producing a centre-periphery pattern of urban development. Because the activity centres...master thesis 2014
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Barros, P. (author), Beirão, J. (author), Duarte, J.P. (author)A shape grammar was developed for analyzing the evolution of Maputo´s slums with the strategic objective of capturing the evolution of house types and understanding the social agreements behind the spatial relations of their house elementary spaces in order to reuse such rules for the purpose of rehabilitation. This paper shows preliminary...conference paper 2013
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Varma, R. (author)As Mike Davis has so poignantly pointed out, Mumbai is often considered to be the global capital of slumming with an estimated 10 million squatters living in the city. These informal settlements now account for more than sixty percent of the total population, and have grown largely as islands in the city, cut-off from their surroundings with...master thesis 2013