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Anthony Boanada-Fuchs, Monika Kuffer and Jota Samper
Slums are a structural feature of urbanization, and shifting urbanization trends underline their significance for the cities of tomorrow. Despite their importance, data and knowledge on slums are very limited. In consideration of the current data landsca...
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Naledzani Mudau and Paidamwoyo Mhangara
Research on the detection of informal settlements has increased in the past three decades owing to the availability of high- to very-high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery. The achievement of development goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goal...
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Jota Samper and Weichun Liao
This article challenges the narrow definition of informal settlements as solely lacking a formal framework, which overlooks the dynamic city-making and urban design processes within these areas. Communities? self-building processes and areas? constant gr...
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Hazrat Bilale Salamagy, Fernando Brandão Alves and Clara Pimenta do Vale
The current dimension of informal settlements in Maputo requires the definition of action models framed by empirical evidence, taking advantage of pre-existing socio-spatial and environmental conditions to define physical interventions through sustainabl...
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Maxwell Owusu, Ryan Engstrom, Dana Thomson, Monika Kuffer and Michael L. Mann
Reliable data on slums or deprived living conditions remain scarce in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Global high-resolution maps of deprived areas are fundamental for both research- and evidence-based policies. Existing mapping methods ar...
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Alexandre Pereira Santos, Juan Miguel Rodriguez-Lopez, Cleiton Chiarel and Jürgen Scheffran
How just are risk responses that worsen vulnerability in the long term? Should the urban poor be left with self-reliance when facing hazards in the Anthropocene? This research investigates urban development and vulnerability in the Anthropocene. While it...
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Jason Corburn, Patrick Njoroge, Jane Weru and Maureen Musya
Urban informal settlements or slums are among the most vulnerable places to climate-change-related health risks. Yet, little data exist documenting environmental and human health vulnerabilities in slums or how to move research to action. Citizen science...
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Shirish Singh, Florence Laker, Najib L. Bateganya, Allan G. Nkurunziza, Swaib Semiyaga and Damir Brdjanovic
Various business models for fecal sludge emptying and transport have been developed to address challenges and their advantages have been documented; however, their evaluation has not been investigated. This study developed an evaluation framework, which ...
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Ellen Banzhaf, Henry N. Bulley, Justice Nana Inkoom and Sebastian Elze
This perspective paper highlights the potentials, limitations, and combinations of openly available Earth observation (EO) data and big data in the context of environmental research in urban areas. The aim is to build the resilience of informal settlemen...
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Valerio Di Pinto, Antonio M. Rinaldi and Francesco Rossini
This paper explores the link between the current vision of the ?smart city? and the notion of urban autopoiesis understood as self-organized/managed urban systems. It seeks to highlight how the use of GIS analysis, applied to the study of informal settle...
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