Author: James W. FollinPublisher:
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Category : Slums
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Slums and Blight --a Disease of Urban Life
Author: James W. FollinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slums
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Urban Renewal Bulletin
Author: Our Slum and Blighted Areas
Author: San Antonio (Tex.). Housing and Inspections, Dept. ofPublisher:
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Category : Slums
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Challenge of Slums
Author: United Nations Human Settlements ProgrammePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136554750
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1966
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
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Category : City planning and redevelopment law
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Topography of Wellness
Author: Sara Jensen CarrPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394631X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited discussions of how architects, landscape designers, and urban planners can shape the environment in response to disease. This challenge is both a timely topic and one with an illuminating history. In The Topography of Wellness, Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called social diseases of idleness and crime, to the more complicated origins of today’s chronic diseases, each illness and its associated combat strategies has left its mark on our surroundings. While each solution succeeded in eliminating the disease on some level, sweeping environmental changes often came with significant social and physical consequences. Even more unexpectedly, some adaptations inadvertently incubated future epidemics. From the Industrial Revolution to present day, this book illuminates the constant evolution of our relationship to wellness and the environment by documenting the shifting grounds of illness and the urban landscape. Preparation of this volume has been supported by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
Slum Clearance and Related Housing Problems
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and CurrencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Slum Clearance and Related Housing Problems
Author: United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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City of Disorder
Author: Alex S. VitalePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814788181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
2009 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design In the 1990s, improving the quality of life became a primary focus and a popular catchphrase of the governments of New York and many other American cities. Faced with high levels of homelessness and other disorders associated with a growing disenfranchised population, then mayor Rudolph Giuliani led New York's zero tolerance campaign against what was perceived to be an increase in disorder that directly threatened social and economic stability. In a traditionally liberal city, the focus had shifted dramatically from improving the lives of the needy to protecting the welfare of the middle and upper classes—a decidedly neoconservative move. In City of Disorder, Alex S. Vitale analyzes this drive to restore moral order which resulted in an overhaul of the way New York views such social problems as prostitution, graffiti, homelessness, and panhandling. Through several fascinating case studies of New York neighborhoods and an in-depth look at the dynamics of the NYPD and of the city's administration itself, Vitale explains why Republicans have won the last four New York mayoral elections and what the long-term impact Giuliani's zero tolerance method has been on a city historically known for its liberalism.
Planning
Author: American Society of Planning OfficialsPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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