the upgrading policies of Rio de Janeiro'sfavelas, Brazil, and the governing of Stellenbosch'sinformal settlements, South Africa. Slum policies are influenced by the use of technologies, defined in this paper b
Hunter-gatherers hunted wild animals and gathered uncultivated plants for food. Since these societies were dependent on the environment for their food, they often had to move to new areas. Hunter-gatherer societies were, therefore, nomadic. They didn’t build permanent settlements. The average size...
Medicinal herbs from the northwestern coast are a source of income, and collecting these plants is among the major economic activities in the local community. They are used to treat many diseases in both local communities and those in urban areas of Egypt (Table 4). For example, Seriphidium...
1) LAGOS, NIGERIA - colonial CBD is Lagos Island, modern CBD is Victoria Island, informal settlements include Agege2) Johannesburg, South Africa3) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Agglomeration 1) Silicon Valley (CA) - technology2) Detroit (MI) - automobiles3) Los Angeles (CA) - film & entertainme...
circular chamber—the first examples of the rectangular plan form in building. Still later the circular form was dropped in favor of the rectangle asdwellingswere divided into more rooms and more dwellings were placed together in settlements. The tholoi marked an important step in the search for...
In its updated concept, geotourism is rapidly emerging as a form of urban and regional sustainable development [1]. As Earth scientists involved in Alpine geological and geomorphological studies, we focused the diversity of physical characters in a geographical region of the Western Italian Alps for...
By 2015, Sub-Saharan Africa had 332 million slum-shelters; in Latin America, 110 million people are living in precarious settlements, and 34 million of them in Mexico. For this reason, it is vital and a priority to have tools to support and contribute to their success and liberation from ...
The first technique involves the enhancement of natural groundwater recharge through the drilling of shallow injection wells in natural depressions, injection of fresh recycled water through the drilling of deep recharge wells in Doha, and recharge of urban stormwater through deep boreholes in Doha, ...
“bidonvilles” in francophone North Africa, etc., which we can use to characterise informal and self-produced neighbourhoods, with a horizontal and overcrowded morphology, living in very small and precarious houses and working, generally, in an informal economy, in a kind of rural and urban ...
This type of adaptation some would even call “resilience”. With agricultural evolution, human societies handled the water–energy–food nexus more efficiently, and they could possibly survive these gaps facing the threats of recessions in their settlements. If our group of people on an island ...