Building urban safety through slum upgrading
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nairobi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9789211323931
Description: "Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban development agendas. Impact on urban safety has occurred somewhat unexpectedly. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the pages of this book: urban policy integration."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.