Learning about urban development from the street
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Date of publication
Dezembro 2003
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ISBN / Resource ID
eldis:A9636
Local entrepreneurs drive development in deprived neighbourhoods. Small-scale actions – rather than abstract urban planning by officials – are most effective. Planners should start observing street life and begin to understand that everyday practice and local enterprises can, with a little outside help, be scaled up to improve poor urban people’s lives.