Informal Housing and Marginal Settlements
| Autor: | Christian Obermayr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Sustainable development education.field_of_study media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Geography State (polity) Section (archaeology) Human settlement Regional science First World education 050703 geography Slum media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Urban Book Series ISBN: 9783319494173 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-49418-0_3 |
| Popis: | Marginal settlements, slums, squatters—these are only few terms describing informal settlements. As the definition of ‘slum’ is controversial, counting slum dwellers is a difficult venture. In the first section, this chapter provides an overview about common definitions, develops a low-cost housing typology and explains how the different terms are used. Characteristics, formation processes and spatial patterns of slums are addressed. A second section is concerned with the global debate on the challenge of slums reflected in several global summits on housing questions. The principles adopted and initiatives introduced (e.g., the Habitat Agenda) are explored, from the first World Conference on Human Settlements in 1976 (Habitat I) until the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Highlighting the importance of the challenge of slums, the last section gives an overview about current estimations about the state of the world’s slum population, its spatial distribution and prospected development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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