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1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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computer c rdamedia |
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Fringe |
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Fringe (UCL Press)
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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Housing.
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Bidonvilles.
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Housing & homelessness.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Squatter settlements
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Housing
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| Added Author |
Grashoff, Udo, 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe. London : UCL Press, 2020 1787355233 (OCoLC)1119767383 |
| ISBN |
9781787355217 (electronic bk.) |
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1787355217 (electronic bk.) |
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9781787355248 (electronic bk.) |
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1787355241 (electronic bk.) |
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9781787355231 (hardback) |
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1787355233 |
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1787355225 |
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9781787355224 |
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9781787355255 (mobi) |
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178735525X |
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9781787355224 |
| Standard No. |
10.14324/111.9781787355217 doi |
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AU@ 000066984642 |
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UKMGB 019747608 |
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