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Title Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe / edited by Udo Grashoff.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages) : illustrations (some color)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Fringe
Fringe (UCL Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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
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
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
Summary Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe breaks new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed Janurary 27, 2020).
Subject Squatter settlements.
Housing.
Bidonvilles.
Housing & homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Squatter settlements
Housing
Added Author Grashoff, Udo, 1966- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe. London : UCL Press, 2020 1787355233 (OCoLC)1119767383
ISBN 9781787355217 (electronic bk.)
1787355217 (electronic bk.)
9781787355248 (electronic bk.)
1787355241 (electronic bk.)
9781787355231 (hardback)
1787355233
1787355225
9781787355224
9781787355255 (mobi)
178735525X
9781787355224
Standard No. 10.14324/111.9781787355217 doi
AU@ 000066984642
UKMGB 019747608

 
    
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