TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grashoff,Udo
TI  - Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe
SN  - 9781787355231
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - Housing
N1  - This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0); 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787355217
ER  -