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    Approaches to Urban Slums : A Multimedia Sourcebook on Adaptive and Proactive Strategies
    Approaches to Urban Slums : A Multimedia Sourcebook on Adaptive and Proactive Strategies
    Approaches to Urban Slums : A Multimedia Sourcebook on Adaptive and Proactive Strategies
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    Approaches to Urban Slums : A Multimedia Sourcebook on Adaptive and Proactive Strategies

    By Steffen Janus

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    This multimedia sourcebook on CD-ROM synthesizes an extensive body of knowledge and experience in managing urban slums accumulated over the last 30 years. The key lessons learned and their implications for future work serve as a useful tool for capacity building and knowledge sharing for policy makers, practitioners, planning institutions, community groups, NGOs, and university students. Approaches to Urban Slums include 14 audiovisual presentations (photographs, illustrations, maps, graphic animations, and aerial imagery, along with voice-over narration) and 18 video interviews.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorld Bank Publications
    Release dateFeb 20, 2008
    ISBN9780821373545
    Approaches to Urban Slums : A Multimedia Sourcebook on Adaptive and Proactive Strategies

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