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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan Publications
2003.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31884350*spi |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | "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]"--T.p. verso. |
| Descripción Física: | xxxiv, 310 p. : il., mapas |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [290]-300) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781849772907 9781136554766 |
