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Whether individuals and job opportunities are well connected is a key determinant of productive urban labor markets. The overall level of job accessibility in a city depends on the locations of jobs and workers' residences, as well as transport networks. Moreover, who has good access to job opportunities hinges on the trade-off faced by households in their residential choices over job accessibility, living conditions, and housing costs. This paper empirically analyzes the spatial distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. It finds that workers and jobs are not well connected in the city: Nairobi residents can on average access fewer than 10 percent of existing jobs by foot within an hour. Even using a minibus, they can reach only about a quarter of the jobs. This paper further shows that poorer households and/or those who live in informal settlements can reach a more limited number of jobs. Living closer to job opportunities is indeed costly in Nairobi, not only because housing quality and living conditions tend to be better in such areas, but also job accessibility itself is valued as a great amenity in the housing markets, which challenges low-income households' residential location choice.
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"Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality through an understanding of local implications, the authors collectively reveal specific correlations between sites and their local inhabitants. The book opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as 'problems' to be solved. It comes at a time when common notions of 'informality' are being increasingly challenged. In 25 chapters, the book presents contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners whose theoretical or practical work addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. Whilst previous studies on informal settlements have mainly focused on cases in developing countries, approaching the topic through social, cultural and material dimensions, the book explores the concept across a range of contexts, including former Communist countries and those in the so-called Global North. Contributions also explore understandings of informality at various scalar levels--region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building. Thus, this work helps reposition informality as a relational concept at various scales of urbanisation. This book will be of great benefit to planners, architects, researchers and policymakers interested in the interplay between informality and sustainability"--
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Squatter settlements --- Bidonvilles --- Squatter settlements - Asia --- Squatter settlements - Mexico
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Squatter settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Suburbs --- Squatter settlements
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Ensemble de constructions hâtivement bâties avec des matériaux de fortune sur un terrain squatté non viabilisé, destiné à une population pauvre exclue de tout, le bidonville est l'une des modalités de l'urbanisation planétaire, née à la fin du XIXe siècle et qui abritera près de 2 milliards d'habitants en 2030. Le phénomène s'est considérablement amplifié avec l'exode rural et l'extension des mégalopoles en ouvrant l'éventail des situations : certains bidonvilles centenaires se sont branchés sur les réseaux d'eau et d'électricité, des bicoques sont dorénavant en "dur" et disposent d'un jardinet, d'autres encore représentent le degré zéro de l'habitabilité avec quelques planches maladroitement clouées entre elles et surmontées d'un bout de tôle. Cet ouvrage retrace la géohistoire des bidonvilles, présente les principales théories socio-anthropologiques qui en expliquent la genèse et la pérennité, s'attarde sur leurs représentations tant romanesques que cinématographiques et évalue ce que ces "villes" incomplètes et inconfortables apportent à l'architecture de survie et à l'urbanisation sans urbanisme.
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