Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe /
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe breaks new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.
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London :
UCL Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Series editors' preface
- Editor's preface
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index