Keyword

slums

Description: Slums are densely populated urban settlements characterized by inadequate housing, infrastructure, and access to basic services.

Primary topic: Urban and Rural Development Challenges (43%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q201759

OpenAlex ID: keywords/slums

Planet of Slums

2006 · MIKE DAVIS · New Perspectives Quarterly · 2,103

The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

2004 · UN‐Habitat · Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal · 1,465

Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization

2009 · Ananya Roy · Planning Theory · 1,446

Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism

2011 · ANANYA ROY · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 1,379

Mental Disorders in Urban Areas

1939 · JAMA · 947

Cities of tomorrow: an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century

1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 832

The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums

2016 · Alex Ezeh, Oyinlola Oyebode, et al. · The Lancet · 772

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Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities

2021 · Ollie Jay, Anthony Capon, et al. · The Lancet · 738

The Challenge of slums: global report on human settlements, 2003

2004 · Magrinyà Torner, Francesc · Choice Reviews Online · 688

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Global Political Ecology

2010 · Johnson, Leigh · Routledge eBooks · 602

Rule By Aesthetics

2015 · Asher Ghertner · Oxford University Press eBooks · 594

Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements

2020 · Jason Corburn, David Vlahov, et al. · Journal of Urban Health · 586

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Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai

2000 · Arjun Appadurai · Public Culture · 586

An urbanization bomb? Population growth and social disorder in cities

2012 · Halvard Buhaug, Henrik Urdal · Global Environmental Change · 546

Building Resilience to Climate Change in Informal Settlements

2020 · David Satterthwaite, Diane Archer, et al. · One Earth · 541

The Return of the Slum: Does Language Matter?

2007 · ALAN GILBERT · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research · 512

Urban as a Determinant of Health

2007 · David Vlahov, Nicholas Freudenberg, et al. · Journal of Urban Health · 482

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The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City.

1969 · Jessie Bernard, Gerald D. Suttles · Social Forces · 452

Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009

2009 · Un-Habitat · 425

Latin American Squatter Settlements: A Problem and a Solution

1967 · William Mangin · Latin American Research Review · 425

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‘Urban Transformation’ as State-led Property Transfer: An Analysis of Two Cases of Urban Renewal in Istanbul

2010 · Tuna Kuyucu, Özlem Ünsal · Urban Studies · 406

Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design since 1880

2014 · Peter Geoffrey Hall · 402

Diagnosis and epidemiology of leptospirosis

2013 · M. Picardeau · Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses · 398

World Development Report 2009

2008 · World Bank · 397

City Futures

2008 · Edgar Pieterse · Zed Books Ltd · 371

Works count: 15,160

Citation count: 105,000