Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe / 
edited by Udo Grashoff. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 267 pages) 
<br/><br/> This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>London : <br/>UCL Press, <br/>2020. <br/>Available in PDF format. <br/>Description based on contents viewed 18 February 2020. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781787355231 9781787355224 9781787355217 9781787355248 9781787355255 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Housing.