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    Urban Child Protection

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    Urban child protection: A study on project area of Plan (Dhalpur) Introduction: Plan has been working in Bangladesh since 18 years. Globally it has 8 thematic areas. The areas are education‚ disaster risk management‚ child participation‚ child protection‚ economic security‚ sexual and reproductive health‚ water and sanitation. According to plan every child has equal rights on education‚ even in the time of disaster. Plan also emphasizes on child participation‚ child protection. Plan is now working

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    authorities of these cities also provide basic sources and services for those who are living in the squatter settlements so that these residents could afford themselves and the environment of the slum will also be improved. Compared to merely dismantling the shanty houses which will cause the appearance of another new slum areas and even worse living conditions‚ what the governments in ecocities do has coped with the problems of urban space caused by urbanisation. Secondly‚ lack of urban transport‚ considered

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    The Power of One. John G. Avildsen uses many different techniques in the film _The Power of One._ For example the structure‚ the different camera angles‚ sound and symbolism are key techniques used throughout the film. The film is split into three main parts: out in Africa and the boarding school when PK is younger‚ the jail where PK is a little older and the last part where PK is around about eighteen. This structure shows exactly how PK grows up and the relationships he forms with others around

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    Dbq Industrial Revolution

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    also became cheaper and easier. Factories gave women and children places to work and receive pay. The women in the factories were well dressed and clean as said in document 6. Slum: a thickly populated‚ run-down‚ squalid part of a city‚ inhabited by poor people. Document 7 states that “Every town has one or more slum areas where the workers struggle through life as best they can out of sight of the more fortunate classes of society” (The conditions of the Working Class in England) Around most

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    Urbanisation in India

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    Urbanisation in India Urbanisation in India was mainly caused after independence‚ due to adoption of mixed system of economy by the country which gave rise to the development of private sector. Urbanisation is taking place at a faster rate in India. Population residing in urban areas in India‚ according to 1901 census‚ was 11.4%.[1] This count increased to 28.53% according to 2001 census‚ and crossing 30% as per 2011 census‚ standing at 31.16%.[2][3]According to a survey by UN State of the World

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    The Real Slumdogs to me is the groups that work together to rag pick. They are groups of men and women that come together in the slum and go to the dumps to sort through trash and waste. All of the trash‚ they sort through everything‚ saying it all has a purpose. Especially all of the plastic. They break it down‚ clean it and ship it to the sellers to use. Just in the slum of Dharavi there is one million people to one square mile. Think about how crammed they have to be. The groups live in filth with

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    Impact of Urbanization

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    URBANIZATION – IMPACTS 1. THE CONCEPT OF URBANIZATION Urbanization refers to general increase in population and the amount of industrialization of a settlement. It includes increase in the number and extent of cities. It symbolizes themovement of people from rural to urban areas.Urbanization happens because of the increase in the extent and density of urban areas.The density of population in urban areas increases because of the migration of people from less industrialized regions to more industrialized

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    Dharavi

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    Asm-soc dharavi-no longer dharavi!! toc: 1)dump the slums 2)article on unmployement 3)previous years contributuion 4)how is it adding to traffic in Mumbai? 5)how is tourism affected? 1)Wow our country is popular for one thing-dharavi sums‚the biggest in our continent.the negative impacts of slums outweights the positive.traffic‚pollution and lfe sweating diseases are major ones.illiterate dump garbage that creats a breeding

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    1983:4). A slum involves much more than housing‚ deficient sanitary and hygienic facilities‚ over-crowding and congestion by which it is characterized (Clinard‚ 1970). The involvement of the informal settlers is immensely evident in the urban areas. These slums are usually located along the waterways‚ dump sites‚ under the bridges‚ danger zones and the like. In which case‚ the government has appointed the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to tear down these slums and relocate its

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    Building Castles In The Air

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    Building Castles in Air: Housing Scheme for Bombay’s Slum-Dwellers Author(s): Gurbir Singh and P. K. Das Source: Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol. 30‚ No. 40 (Oct. 7‚ 1995)‚ pp. 2477-2481 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4403298 Accessed: 08-04-2015 15:55 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service

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