Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe / edited by Udo Grashoff.
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TextPublisher: UCL Press, Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages)ISBN: 9781787355231; 9781787355224; 9781787355217; 9781787355248; 9781787355255Subject(s): HousingOnline resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. London : UCL Press, 2020. Available in PDF format. Description based on contents viewed 18 February 2020.
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