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Smoke alarms are used extensively in formal buildings around the world to alert occupants to impending fires, but until recently they’ve not been used informal dwellings.
Local government and humanitarian actors are faced with tough choices of prioritising, managing and balancing resources, locations and constituencies.
Study presents a model that can be scaled to improve learning outcomes and transition rates for young people living in urban informal settlements.
The plight of the urban poor affected by COVID-19 highlights the need to to reaffirm that adequate housing, water supply and sanitation are basic human rights.
In South Africa and India, research has found that free or affordable housing can actually undermine women’s safety and livelihoods.
Urban dwellers who live in informal city settlements have limited access to basic services, and many of them don’t own the land they live on.
In our urban world, turning the makeshift and the informal into the livable and sustainable is our greatest challenge.
Rebuilding informal settlements after a disaster must be done through learning from those who live in the settlements.
Research in Ghana shows that improving slum housing could be one of the alternatives to the capital’s housing crisis.
New ways of managing water have emerged in some of Africa’s urban and peri-urban areas.
Some kampung in Jakarta have become hubs from participatory design and sustainable urban planning.
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Associate professor, University of the Western Cape
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate professor of Communications, Concordia University
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Casual Academic, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Geosciences, Georgia State University
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Research Fellow, The Australasian Centre for Resilience Implementation for Sustainable Communities, Charles Darwin University
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Senior Lecturer: Environmental and Resource Economics, University of Pretoria
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Reader, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
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Ph.D., Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Senior Researcher: Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction, Stellenbosch University
