2018
DOI: 10.3390/su10072571
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Transforming Cape Vert Informal Settlements

Abstract: Abstract:The lack of land ownership databases in developing countries has influenced inhabitants of these countries to occupy public lands. This situation has resulted in areas of informal housing, commerce, and agriculture, ultimately creating new informal settlements, which are becoming a serious problem in developing countries. These informal settlements contain inhabitants settled on public land without any infrastructure and against the landowner's wishes. This process results in uncontrolled land occupat… Show more

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“…The problem of IBs is becoming dramatic in developing countries due to the population explosion (a case study about informal settlements in Bandung, Indonesia, is reported by Jones, [16]. References [17][18][19] are further papers on the same tipic). In [19], Qian reported that in 2013, in Shenzhen (China), the IBs were 273,000, covering about 43% of the total construction area.…”
Section: Relevance Of the Problemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The problem of IBs is becoming dramatic in developing countries due to the population explosion (a case study about informal settlements in Bandung, Indonesia, is reported by Jones, [16]. References [17][18][19] are further papers on the same tipic). In [19], Qian reported that in 2013, in Shenzhen (China), the IBs were 273,000, covering about 43% of the total construction area.…”
Section: Relevance Of the Problemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Existing data about informal settlements are not available, accurate, or complete and, in most cases, obsolete [48]. The mapping of cadastral areas in informal settlements is crucial for the transformation of these areas [49]. Imprecise data about the scale of informal settlements hinder agencies, city officials, and scholars' efforts to inform appropriate policies about the phenomena of informality.…”
Section: Mapping Informal Neighborhoods Globallymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In its different chapters, the paper analyzes both cases in Vilnius. Scholars analyze different aspects of illegal settlements including illegal urban suburbs [16], illegal areas beyond any regulations [17], unlicensed buildings [18], poor slums [19,20] mostly in under-developed countries, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe [21]. In that combines a semiotic approach, social criticism and cultural regionalism along with the historical approach.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%