The self-build experience : institutionalisation, place-making and city building /

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Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban prosperity differs across these contexts, the...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Salet, W. G. M. (Author), D'Ottaviano, Camila (Author), Majoor, Stan (Author), Bossuyt, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2020.
Series:Urban policy, planning and the built environment.
Subjects:
Low-income housing > South America.
Low-income housing > Europe.
Low-income housing > Africa.
City planning.
Urbanization.
Pauvres > Logement > Amérique du Sud.
Pauvres > Logement > Europe.
Pauvres > Logement > Afrique.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
Low-income housing.
Africa.
Europe.
South America.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Notes on contributors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Self-building as a right to the city
  • The changing décor of governance
  • The institutionalisation of self-build governance: exemplifying governance relationships in São Paulo/Brazil/Latin America
  • Contested governance of housing for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions: the pivotal role of commissioning
  • Self-building in contested spaces: livelihoods and productivity challenges of the urban poor in Africa
  • Changing housing regimes
  • My House, My Life Programme
  • Entities: two self-management experiences in the city of São Paulo
  • The Solano Trindade housing occupation as an urban self-management project in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro
  • Self-management and the production of habitat: a case study of the Alianza Solidaria Housing Cooperative in Quito
  • Residents' experiences of self-build housing
  • Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul
  • The experience of an African city: urban areas in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  • The implications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions: exemplifying the cases of São Paulo and Amsterdam
  • From neighbourhood self-organisation to city building: the case of Bathore, Kamëz (Albania)
  • Conclusion: The normalisation of moral ownership
  • Index

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