CHECK THESE SAMPLES OF Slum Areas in Cairo and its Informal Housing
pecialized in housing/Villa projects, Al Masaken was established in 1998 as a part of ACICO group with a 25% ownership from ACICO.... Having sailed through the initial hiccups the company specialized in the new wave construction of vertical housing by the year 2003.... The current essay represents a case study on the Al Masaken Real Estate Company, particularly its financial activity, Moreover, the paper describes the background of the company, its strategies and competition potential on the contemporary local market....
10 Pages
(2500 words)
Essay
informal sector encompasses a wide spectrum of activities – some legal and necessary, but many illegal and undesirable.... Governments all over the world are cerned about the informal economy running in parallel with the formal economy - with the legal activities escaping the tax net, and the illegal activities hoodwinking the law enforcement agencies.... Hence one comes to accept the fact that in any society with a formal economy, the informal economy exists too....
5 Pages
(1250 words)
Essay
Low income cities such as Addis Ababa represents a pattern of urban expansion are not unlike that experienced in cairo or Istabul (UNITED NATIONS HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAMME 2003).... For example, the greenbelt movement in London that banned the extension of housing into the near the city's periphery has resulted to a greater sprawl to far outside the principal urban area (PRASAD 2003).... It is likely that urban centers will continue to expand as they grow larger, consistent with what might seems like the work of both market preferences and economic pressure for lower cost, more spacious housing....
5 Pages
(1250 words)
Essay
This paper "slum life empowerment activities" explains personal lifestyle in management and use of leisure time through interacting with slum dwellers for talent harnessing, community mobilization on behavior change as well as in environmental conservation.... Life in slum is characterized with poor living standards, lack of basic needs like food shelter and clothing as well as deprivation of such basic services as education.... This, therefore, informed my decision to spend my leisure time interacting with slum dwellers in efforts to help them change behaviors for a positive living....
6 Pages
(1500 words)
Essay
informal settlement has greatly affected the environment in substantial levels through its dense populated nature.... In its effort to locate these environments, the programs face challenges from the local authorities and political figures that may interfere with land tenure.... its failure may arise when the project lacks a formidable source of the donation to take it through the entire program.... In many slum aces, health problems have led to the emergence of water borne diseases that have claimed the lives of many who resides in these areas (Katukiza 2014 Pg....
5 Pages
(1250 words)
Essay
… The paper "Mathematics Teachers Acting as informal Assessors by Anne Watson" is a delightful example of an article on education.... For this activity, I have chosen to discuss Anne Watson's (2000) article that investigates how Mathematics teachers can act as informal assessors in the classroom setting.... What this article offered is descriptive and empirical information that provided insights and evidence describing informal assessment and how students are assessed in this manner in the mathematics subject....
3 Pages
(750 words)
Essay
This point clearly supports Mike's thesis from the fact that every day, there are new people moving to urban areas in search of employment and related factors.... They move to slums for they cannot afford decent housing and they are too ashamed to move back to rural areas.... 78% of the people living in urban areas reside in slums and it is vital to ensure that these statistics are understood to offer means through which to generally improve....
4 Pages
(1000 words)
Book Report/Review
Again, as this does to everyone else, it applies to the policeman, assuming its general acceptance of the truth.... This paper ''Aristotle and His Works'' tells that ethics refers to a set of principles of the right way to behave in a given environment.... It is also the study of an individual's general moral choices and the philosophy that informs them....
5 Pages
(1250 words)
Essay