In this Book
- Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe
- 2020
- Book
- Published by: University College London
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.
The volume’s global approach is found not only in the variety of topics but in the origins of its authors, who between them contribute specialist knowledge from Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, North and South America, and Eastern and Western Europe. Bringing together such a wide range of authors and subjects demonstrates the power of comparative research to open up new perspectives. By comparing, for example, toleration of informal housing in Hong Kong and Paris, squatting in the Netherlands and communist East Germany, or slums in nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century Africa, the chapters connect different contexts in path-breaking fashion.
Table of Contents
- Half Title
- p. i
- Series page
- p. ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- List of figures
- pp. vii-x
- List of tables
- p. xi
- List of contributors
- pp. xii-xv
- Series editors’ preface
- p. xvi
- Editor’s preface
- pp. xvii-xviii
- 12. Concluding remarks
- pp. 238-242
- Bibliography
- pp. 243-262
Additional Information
ISBN
9781787355217
Related ISBN(s)
9781787355224
MARC Record
OCLC
1137317221
Launched on MUSE
2021-01-14
Language
English
Open Access
Yes