The challenge of slums : global report on human settlements, 2003 /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan Publications,
2003.
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| Series: | Global report on human settlements ;
2003. |
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Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
| Summary: | 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 peopl. |
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| Item Description: | "UN-HABITAT." "First published in the UK and USA in 2003 by Earthscan Publications LTD for and on behalf of the United National Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) [Nairobi, Kenya]"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiv, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849772907 1849772908 9781136554766 1136554769 1417583312 9781417583317 661047611X 9786610476114 1844070360 9781844070367 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |