Informal settlement upgrading and safety: Experiences from Cape Town, South Africa
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Date
2017
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Springer Nature
Abstract
Informal settlement dwellers are disproportionately affected by ill health, violence and many other socio-economic challenges. These are largely connected to the unhealthy and unsafe physical conditions within which they live. Interventions in the built form through the provision of physical infrastructure have been proposed as a strategy to improve economic, social and health outcomes for informal settlement dwellers and are also suggested as tools to address violence and insecurity, which have reached unprecedented levels in many cities of the South.
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Keywords
Informal settlements, Housing, Upgrading, Violence, Reblocking
Citation
Brown-Luthango, M. et al. (2017). Informal settlement upgrading and safety: Experiences from Cape Town, South Africa. J Hous and the Built Environ ,32, 471–493