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- Title
- Evaluating squatter residence in urban Zambia : the effects of social class and urbanization
- Creator
- Mason, Anne Louise
- Date
- 1980
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Informal settlements and the geography of vulnerability - a spatial case study of Hidalgo County, Texas
- Creator
- Huang, Huiqing (Graduate of Michigan State University)
- Date
- 2019
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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"More than 2,000 colonias and more than 800 model subdivisions have been developed in unincorporated areas across the state of Texas. Since the 1980s, a substantial body of research has documented the poor housing conditions and inadequate infrastructure in these informal settlements in the United States. However, very little research has focused on the geographic vulnerability, such as exposure to environmental risks and the lack of access to amenities. This study adopts two Geographic...
Show more"More than 2,000 colonias and more than 800 model subdivisions have been developed in unincorporated areas across the state of Texas. Since the 1980s, a substantial body of research has documented the poor housing conditions and inadequate infrastructure in these informal settlements in the United States. However, very little research has focused on the geographic vulnerability, such as exposure to environmental risks and the lack of access to amenities. This study adopts two Geographic Information System (GIS) methods (overlay analysis and proximity analysis) to investigate the vulnerability of informal settlements in Hidalgo County, Texas. This research finds that informal settlements experience more spatial vulnerability than formal neighborhoods as they are further away from the urban center, the job center, and other critical amenities. However, the prevalence of property crime in informal settlements is significantly lower. Within the informal settlements, colonias are still in need of basic infrastructures. Besides, this study finds that state-designated colonias are less vulnerable than newer model subdivisions that have developed largely without acknowledgment by the state.These findings suggest the need for state and local governments 1) to make more targeted investments to provide water and wastewater service; 2) to develop public transportation system; 3) to reduce vulnerability by expanding access to amenities or services and 4) to partner with private entities and communities themselves to address the needs in informal settlements."--Page ii.
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- Title
- Anti Kraakwet : indien je illegaale woont laat je dan hier informeren en geef je op, dan sta je niet aleen als hij komt
- Date
- 1978
- Collection
- Leftist Political Posters Collection
- Description
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Poster shows a menacing man (from the chest up) staring directly at the viewer. He is wearing a black coat and black military-style hat with a starburst design badge on the front showing two crossed hatchets in the center circle with sprigs of laurel on either side. Below the center circle is: "[unidentified word] revell." The main title and the lips and inner left eye of the man are bright red. The poster seems intended to frighten squatters at a time when squatting was being criminalized in...
Show morePoster shows a menacing man (from the chest up) staring directly at the viewer. He is wearing a black coat and black military-style hat with a starburst design badge on the front showing two crossed hatchets in the center circle with sprigs of laurel on either side. Below the center circle is: "[unidentified word] revell." The main title and the lips and inner left eye of the man are bright red. The poster seems intended to frighten squatters at a time when squatting was being criminalized in the Netherlands. Ink is red and black.
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- Title
- Homelessness and the World Cup
- Creator
- Ladd, Joshua Andrew
- Date
- 2015
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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Homelessness and the World Cup is a thesis about how the planning of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament affected the lives of the homeless in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is an ethnographic study that looks into the presence, use, and destruction of informal settlements near the Maracanã stadium. Maracanã was the sight of some of the matches in the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament. The study relied on observational data regarding before and after uses of informal settlements as well as the...
Show moreHomelessness and the World Cup is a thesis about how the planning of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament affected the lives of the homeless in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is an ethnographic study that looks into the presence, use, and destruction of informal settlements near the Maracanã stadium. Maracanã was the sight of some of the matches in the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament. The study relied on observational data regarding before and after uses of informal settlements as well as the phenomenological approach to ethnography. That approach to ethnography aims to understand the subject’s experience of their day-to-day lives. The thesis argues that the policies of mega event planning often directly contradict the needs of homeless individuals exercising their rights to inhabit public places.
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- Title
- "Squatter settlements as a transitional adjustment phase in rural-urban migration : the case of Tabriz, Iran"
- Creator
- Aloochi, Housain Banifatemeh
- Date
- 1982
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations