...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...

... political tool in the conflict. © 2019 Open House International 2019 Licensed re-use rights only. Reconstruction policy Conflict Displacement Law 10 Decree 66 Syria Damascus Marota City Informal settlements Nour Harastani, Edwar Hanna THE LATERAL CONFLICT OF URBAN PLANNING IN DAMASCUS...

...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...

..., decreased productivity and capacity - and the experience of including HIV and AIDS within the core organisational mandate. Financial sustainability explores the challenges of reconciling related financial and social goals. K e y w o r d s : Low-Income Housing, Informal Settlements, HIV, AIDS, Community...