Browsing Theses by Subject "informal settlements"
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Cairo from Above: A Guide to Cairo’s Informal Communities & Rooftop Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-16)In Greater Cairo, Egypt, informal settlements have emerged as the predominant form of urbanization, accommodating over 40% of the city’s population. Seventy-five percent of urban areas across Egypt are unplanned. For over ... -
Flood risk and sanitation service delivery in informal settlements under climate change: a case study of Cape Town, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)Informal settlements are home to 32 per cent of urban dwellers worldwide. Access to sanitation in these spaces is amongst the most pressing needs and contentious issues in cities in developing countries. Shack dwellers, ... -
[in]formal Pattern Language - A guide to Handmade Improvitecture© in Cairo
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)The thesis is situated in Cairo, a city with 64% of the population living in informal settlements. Cairo‘s informality transcends, however, the boundaries of these areas and manifests itself daily in spatial and temporal ... -
Informal Progressions. A comparative analysis of Lima and Medellin informal settlements
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)Latin American cities have seen significant demographic growth during the second half of the 20th century. As this expansion was unable to find a formal apparatus for its incorporation into the city, much of it was established ... -
An Undivided Landscape: Dissolving Apartheid buffer zones in Johannesburg, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-01)Progressive spatial segregation of Whites from other ethnic races in South Africa started in 1886. Apartheid rulers evicted three and a half million Blacks, Coloureds and Indians from white urban and residential areas ... -
VENICE OF LAGOS - Reviving the fishing culture in Makoko through Aquaponics
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Lagos, Nigeria is a rapidly growing mega-city that faces issues such as overpopulation, pollution, waste management, sanitation, poverty among a host of others. The coastal nature of Lagos causes the city to experience ...