...Aseel Alja'afreh; Raed Al Tal; Anwar Ibrahim Purpose The study hypothesized that the absence of the governing authority during the growth and expansion of informal settlements caused a highly randomized dense social fabric that shaped their characteristics. Design/methodology/approach...

..., Syria, Damascus, Marota City, Informal settlements. Introduction The Syrian conflict is entering its eighth year. With no fund for reconstruction in the horizon, coupled with the lack of any peace deal, the Syrian government has been designing neoliberal reconstruction policies that tend to be socially...

...Haniyeh Razavivand Fard Increase in the population rate and the extent of urbanization in the last two centuries resulted in the concentration of the population around the growth poles. A large portion of this population lives in the peripheries of the large cities in informal settlements under...

...Donovan Gottsmann; Amira Osman Poor living conditions in informal settlements may be attributed mostly, though not exclusively, to the lack of basic services. Informal settlements, which also go by the name of squatter camps, are volatile by nature. Even within relatively fixed settlement...

... and social goals. © 2008 Open House International 2008 Licensed re-use rights only. Low-Income Housing Informal Settlements HIV AIDS Community Based Responses Housing Groups Housing Co-operatives open house international Vol 33, No.4, December 2008 African Housing Organisations Respond...