A GIS DATABASE DESIGN FOR URBAN POVERTY MANAGEMENT
Poverty is a socio-economic scourge raging at varying degrees throughout the African continent. Its prevalence is most pervasive in the cores of African traditional cities than in the urban peripheries which tend to be more modernized. Non-recognition of the heterogeneous nature of urban poverty and the many players involved in its management has only helped to aggravate the problem. Consequently, a holistic planning, implementation and control approach is imperative. This should involve all tiers of government, non-governmental bodies, donor agencies, international organizations with the research community on one hand, and a combination of historical, economical, sociological, anthropological and spatial perspectives on the other hand. The spatial perspective, which is the main focus of this paper, serves to interface with the other perspectives since people are used to space and they live in space. In this regard, Geographic Information technology (GIT) is of utmost importance with the Spatial Database Management System (DBMS) as its heart...
Poverty is a socio-economic scourge raging at varying degrees throughout the African continent. Its prevalence is most pervasive in the cores of African traditional cities than in the urban peripheries which tend to be more modernized. Non-recognition of the heterogeneous nature of urban poverty and the many players involved in its management has only helped to aggravate the problem. Consequently, a holistic planning, implementation and control approach is imperative. This should involve all tiers of government, non-governmental bodies, donor agencies, international organizations with the research community on one hand, and a combination of historical, economical, sociological, anthropological and spatial perspectives on the other hand. The spatial perspective, which is the main focus of this paper, serves to interface with the other perspectives since people are used to space and they live in space. In this regard, Geographic Information technology (GIT) is of utmost importance with the Spatial Database Management System (DBMS) as its heart...
