Dynamics and resilience of informal areas : international perspectives /: international perspectives. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sahar Attia, Shahdan Shabka, Zeinab Shafik, Asmaa Ibrahim, editors.
• Editors: Attia, Sahar; Shabka, Shahdan; Shafik, Zeinab; Ibrahim, Asmaa
• Contents: Part I. Innovative Policies & Strategies to Informal Urbanism -- 1. Urbanization, Collective Action and Coping Strategies in Informal Areas of African Cities: A Polycentric Environmental Planning Perspective -- Samson R. Akinola -- 2. From Informal To Formal: What Can Be Learned From Reviewing Fifty Years of Portuguese Models, Policies and Politics -- Paulo Silva -- 3. Application of Upgrading Strategies and Urban Farming Principles to Mangueira Complex, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil -- Alessandra Battisti -- 4. Slum Tourism: A Catalyst for Urban Development? Reflections from Cairo's Ashwa'iyat (informal areas) -- Mennatuallah Hendawy -- 5. Between Formal Structure and Informal Practice Public Space as Catalyst of Change: a Case Study -- Riccardo Maroso -- Part II. Production, Operation and the Life-World of Urban Space -- 6. Right to Urban Space in Post-revolution Cairo: A Study for Street Vending Phenomenon -- Nezar A. Kafafy -- 7. Social Production of Urban Space in Informal Areas in the G.C.R "Missing Values & Probable Potential" -- Randa A. Mahmoud -- 8. Operative Public Space for Informal Nairobi: The why not Junior Academy Experience -- Silvia Cimini -- 9. "Slum" Upgrading In South Africa: Defamiliarising the Global Neighbourhood Aesthetic -- Kristen Kornienko -- 10. Informal Urbanism as a Product of Socio-Cultural Expression: Insights from the Island Pacific -- Paul Jones -- Part III. The Dynamics of Informal Settlements.-11. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies for Housing and Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia: The PNPM Programme in Yogyakarta -- Sonia Roitman -- 12. A South-South Dialogue on Housing; the Facilitator Model and its Limitations in Brazil and India -- Hector Becerril -- 13. Residential Mobility in Egypt; a Must or a Myth -- Rania Nasr Eldin -- 14. A Proposed Statistical Model for Real Estate Appraisal in Historical Mixed use -- Asmaa Abdel Aty Mohamed Ibrahim -- 15. Water, Food and Energy Nexus, Investigating the Feasibility of the Concept through the Application of a Sustainable Sanitation System, the Case of Zerzara, Hurghada -- Anas Alhowaily.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 363.5/96942; Geography; Squatter settlements; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Squatter settlements; Business & Economics -- Urban & Regional; Science -- Environmental Science; Science -- System Theory; Political economy; Sustainability; Social research & statistics; Regional economics; Sustainable development; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319299488; 3319299484; 3319299468; 9783319299464
• Related ISBNs: 9783319299464
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 23, 2016).
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