Readings and materials

Publications from Work Package 1 (Peer reviewed)

Alternative methods for slum mapping

Participatory methods

  • Hachmann S, Jokar Arsanjani J, Vaz E. Spatial data for slum upgrading: Volunteered Geographic Information and the role of citizen science. Habitat International. 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.04.011

Remote sensing based methods

  • M. Wurm, and H. Taubenböck, “Detecting social groups from space – Assessment of remote sensing-based mapped morphological slums using income data,” Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 41–50, 2017.
  • Monika Kuffer, Karin Pfeffer, and Richard Sliuzas, “Slums from Space—15 Years of Slum Mapping Using Remote Sensing,” Remote Sensing, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 455, 2016. doi:10.3390/rs8060455
  • Gruebner, O., Sachs, J., Nockert, A., Frings, M., Khan, M.M.H., Lakes, T., & Hostert, P.(2014). Mapping the Slums of Dhaka from 2006 to 2010. Dataset Papers in Science. doi:10.1155/2014/172182

Health research in slum regions

  • Richard J Lilford, Oyinlola Oyebode, David Satterthwaite, G J Melendez-Torres, Yen-Fu Chen, Blessing Mberu, Samuel I Watson, Jo Sartori, Robert Ndugwa, Waleska Caiaffa, Tilahun Haregu, Anthony Capon, Ruhi Saith, Alex Ezeh, Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums, In The Lancet, Volume 389, Issue 10068, 2017, Pages 559-570, ISSN 0140-6736, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31848-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31848-7
  • Ezeh, Alex, Oyebode, Oyinlola, Satterthwaite, David, Chen, Y-F. (Yen-Fu), Ndugwa, Robert, Sartori, Jo, Mberu, Blessing, Melendez-Torres, G. J., Haregu, Tilahun, Watson, Samuel I., Caiaffa, Waleska, Capon, Anthony and Lilford, Richard J.. (2017) The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums. The Lancet, 389 (10068). pp. 547-558. ISSN 0140-6736. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31650-6
  • Beguy, D., Ezeh, A. C., Mberu, B. U. and Emina, J. B.O. (2017), Changes in Use of Family Planning among the Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi Slums. Population and Development Review, 43: 216–234. doi:10.1111/padr.12038

PhD Thesis on slum

  • Iliffe, Mark Peter (2017) The praxis of community mapping in developing countries. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
  • Kohli, Divyani (2015) Identifying and classifying slum areas using remote sensing. Enschede, University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation (ITC), 2015. ITC Dissertation 279, ISBN: 978-90-365-4008-7.

Books, Reports and project related items on slum

  • Report: UNDERSTANDING SLUMS: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/home.htm
  • Report: Urban Slum Reports: Sasa/Ibadan in Nigeria: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/pdfs/Ibadan.pdf
  • Book: 2006 book of Mike Davis ‘Planet of Slums’ on the prevalence of slums worldwide: http://rebels-library.org/files/planet_of_slums.pdf
  • Slum related project: Case Study: Using GIS Information to Target Health Services in Slum Areas in Bangladesh
  • Community mapping project in Tanzania
  • Unicef Zambia – Participatory mobile data collection: http://www.aptivate.org/en/work/projects/unicef-zambia-participatory-mobile-data-collection/
  • Missing Maps Bangladesh Field Mapping: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Missing_Maps_Bangladesh_Field_Mapping_Jan15
  • Rough Guide to rural data collection with ODK By Chris Wilson: http://www.aptivate.org/en/blog/2011/12/05/rough-guide-to-rural-data-collection-with-odk/
  • Mapping of health facilities in Lebanon using geographic information system [GIS]: http://www.emro.who.int/lbn/lebanon-infocus/health-facility-mapping.html