Slum Upgrading: Assesing the importance of location and a plea for a spatial approach

Habitat International

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 270-288

  Olthuis, Koen ^a,b   Benni, Jiya ^a,b   Eichwede, Kristin ^a,b   Zevenbergen, Chris ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b WaterstudioNL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Flooding; Location; Physical infrastructure; Slum upgrading; Waterbody

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING WORLD; FLOODING; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84941655298     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.08.033     Document Type: Article

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