A regional assessment of two decades of informal settlement displacement 2003–2022

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI:10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103434

Matthijs van Oostrum

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Abstract

The displacement of people living in informal settlement threatens their lives and livelihoods and represents a failure to promote in-situ upgrading of settlements. This study documents trends in the rate of informal settlement displacement in a sample of 60 cities in the Global South, using a complementary methodology of satellite imagery and on-the-ground enumerations. This paper contributes to theory on displacement, by enumerating the trends in informal settlement displacement and linking these to known drivers of displacements. It finds that over the past two decades, informal settlement displacement has remained common place, but significant regional variation exists. Rates of informal settlement displacement are lowest in the sample of cities in Latin America; peaking around 2010 in Asia and though remaining high, trending downwards since; and the highest in the African sample of cities. Property development is the most prevalent post-demolition land-use in the Asian sample, while in Africa, most land after informal eviction remains unused or returns to wasteland.

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2003-2022年二十年非正式定居点流离失所的区域评估

居住在非正式住区的人们的流离失所威胁到他们的生命和生计，并表明未能促进住区的就地升级。本研究采用卫星图像和实地普查相结合的补充方法，记录了全球南方60个城市样本中非正规住区流离失所率的趋势。本文通过列举非正式定居流离失所的趋势并将这些趋势与已知的流离失所驱动因素联系起来，为流离失所理论做出了贡献。研究发现，在过去二十年中，非正式定居流离失所现象仍然普遍存在，但存在显著的区域差异。在拉丁美洲的城市样本中，非正规住区流离失所率最低；2010年左右在亚洲达到峰值，尽管仍处于高位，但此后呈下降趋势；在非洲城市样本中是最高的。在亚洲样本中，房地产开发是拆迁后最普遍的土地利用方式，而在非洲，非正式驱逐后的大多数土地仍未使用或恢复为荒地。

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10.50

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10.30%

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151

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.