Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe

Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe breaks new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grashoff, Udo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2020, 2020
Series:Fringe
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 5. Squatters and the socialist heritage: A comparison of informal settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
  • 6. Squatting activism in Brazil and Spain: Articulations between the right to housing and the right to the city
  • 7. Favela vs asphalt: Suggesting a new lens on Rio de Janeiro's favelas and formal city
  • 8. Between informal and illegal in the Global North: Planning law, enforcement and justifiable noncompliance
  • 9. Shanty settlements in nineteenth-century Europe: Lessons from comparison with Africa
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • Series editors' preface
  • Editor's preface
  • 1. Towards critique and differentiation: Comparative research on informal housing
  • 2. Illegal housing: The case for comparison
  • 3. Towards a political economy of toleration of illegality: Comparing tolerated squatting in Hong Kong and Paris
  • 4. Squatting in Leiden and Leipzig in the 1970s and 1980s: A comparison of informal housing practices in a capitalist democracy and a communist dictatorship
  • 10. Squats across the Empire: A comparison of squatting movements in post-Second World War UK and Australia
  • 11. Failed takeover: The phenomenon of right-wing squatting
  • 12. Concluding remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Index