Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9211311764
Category : English language
Languages : ar
Pages : 322
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Multilingual Glossary of Human Settlements Terms
Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9211311764
Category : English language
Languages : ar
Pages : 322
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Fragments of Home
Author: Tom Scott-SmithPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503640299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay. Governments and charities have adopted a range of strategies in response to this need. Some have sequestered refugees in massive camps of glinting metal. Others have hosted them in renovated office blocks and disused warehouses. They often end up in prefabricated shelters flown in from abroad. This book focuses on seven examples of emergency shelter, from Germany to Jordan, which emerged after the great "summer of migration" in 2015. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research into these shelters, the book reflects on their political implications and opens up much bigger questions about humanitarian action. By exploring how aid agencies and architects approached this basic human need, Tom Scott-Smith demonstrates how shelter has many elements that are hard to reconcile or combine; shelter is always partial and incomplete, producing mere fragments of home. Ultimately, he argues that current approaches to emergency shelter have led to destructive forms of paternalism and concludes that the principle of autonomy can offer a more fruitful approach to sensitive and inclusive housing.
Count Me in
Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9211322286
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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"This book is about involving and engaging urban poor communities in one of the first steps of any participatory planning or upgrading initiative. It describes how we can use 'participatory enumerations, ' a surveying method used to gain better knowledge of the needs and priorities of the community. It presents and analyses existing and novel applications of participatory enumerations to enhance tenure security and improve urban land management."--Publisher's description.
Social Problems in India
Author: Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177647082
Category : Social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Building Materials and Health
Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211313383
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Multilingual glossary of environmental terms
Author: International Organization for Unification of Terminological NeologismsPublisher:
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Languages : pl
Pages :
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Habitat News
Author: Publications Catalogue
Author: United Nations Centre for Human SettlementsPublisher:
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Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Terms and Concepts in Planning
Author: Asian Institute of Technology. Division of Human Settlements DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Human settlements
Languages : en
Pages :
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Architecture and Culture
Author: Andrea Rieger-JandlPublisher:
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Category : Architecture and globalization
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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