The body of scientific literature on slum mapping employing remote sensing methods has
increased since the availability of more very-high-resolution (VHR) sensors. This improves …

Urbanization in the global South has been accompanied by the proliferation of vast informal
and marginalized urban areas that lack access to essential services and infrastructure. UN …

Ninety percent of the people added to the planet over the next 30 years will live in African
and Asian cities, and a large portion of these populations will reside in deprived …

Informal settlements in African cities are faced with a combination of severe economic,
infrastructural, and health-related challenges, which we hypothesize are linked to historical …

Previous research has demonstrated that exposure to violence (ETV) is a serious concern
across the north-south socioeconomic divide. While studies have found that social support is …

Urban green spaces (UGS) are a central part of cities and offer multiple ecological and
social benefits necessary for a higher quality of life of inhabitants. However, rapid unguided …

Remotely sensed-based estimates of dwelling and population characteristics can provide
timely and spatially explicit information for urban planning and development in emerging …

In order to map the spatial extent and location of slum settlements multiple methodologies
have been devised including remote sensing based methods and field based methods …

Neighbourhoods are fundamental spatial units to present social phenomena in urban
studies. Many studies use administrative boundaries such as census tracts as …

Municipalities and regions are often used as an object of tourism analysis at the subnational
level. This occurs because administrative borders are used to implement tourism policies …