From Self-help Housing to Sustainable Settlement
Author | : John Tait |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1996 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Tait |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : John Tait |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
A comprehensive discussion of the self-help housing debate and, in the light of recent development theory, a review of the perspectives of urban informal production within the globalization of capitalism. It analyses the problems of achieving sustainable solutions in housing projects, the inappropriateness of many planning approaches and the lack of political interest to integrate informal settlement in urban development.
Author | : Kosta Mathéy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
According to the editor, "The debate about self-help housing and its potential contribution to solving the housing problem is at least 50 years old . . . ." The term refers to the concept that inhabitants must have a part in the planning and running of housing projects--enabled by government and supported by industry and commerce. It is a concept that is still evolving as theory and practical experience intersect. Nineteen contributions detail new thinking and case studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Peter M. Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Robert B. Potter |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780870499630 |
This collection of essays represents the first in-depth, scholarly treatment of housing policies and conditions throughout the Caribbean. The contributors consider both the performance of the state and the autonomous activities of the poor, making this volume an invaluable contribution to future planning and debate.The essays, each dealing with a specific island or group of islands, collectively address four main themes: the history of housing provision since colonization, current housing conditions, state policies toward housing provision, and the changing relationships between governments, international funding agencies, the private housing sector, and the peoples' responses. These investigations not only highlight the often alarming problems that Caribbean nations face in providing adequate housing for the poor but also implicate governments in past and present failures and poor performances. However, the essays are also filled with useful insights about the ways in which progressive housing policies can be formulated and implemented. For example, the volume suggests that the Caribbean's rich heritage of folk and vernacular architectural styles should be taken into serious account in future planning efforts.In a concluding synthesis chapter, the volume editors argue that a more progressive future is attainable if all parties exhibit the political will that the poor have already demonstrated.
Author | : Timothy Gbenga Nubi |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2021-03-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9813344245 |
There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere. This volume brings together scholarly works and thoughts that cut across and intertwine the tripods-environment-consciousness, socially just development and African development into options that could deliver on the promise of the SDGs. The book project is an initiative of the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development at the University of Lagos, which realized the gap in ground research linking the housing sector with the SDGs in African cities. This book therefore presents chapters that explore the interconnections, interactions and linkages between the SDGs and Housing through research, practice, experience, case-studies, desk-based research and other knowledge media.
Author | : Garth Andrew Myers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 135194360X |
Based on in-depth fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides a critical analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program in Africa (SCP). Focusing on the SCP's policies for solid waste management, which was identified as the top priority problem by the SCP, the book examines the success of these pilot schemes and the SCP's record in building new relationships between people and government. It argues that the SCP has operated in a political vacuum, without recognition of the long and problematic histories and cultural politics of urban environmental governance in Eastern and Southern Africa. This book brings these cultural and political histories to the fore in its examination of the contemporary dynamics. In doing so, it not only provides an insightful analysis of the policies and outcomes for the SCP, but also puts forward a historically grounded critique of neoliberalism, good governance and sustainable development discourses.
Author | : Jan Bredenoord |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317910168 |
The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for housing, building materials, labour, participation and finance. The book looks at the role of the various stakeholders involved in such interventions, including national and local governments, private sector organisations, NGOs and Community-based Organisations.
Author | : Keith Pezzoli |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262661140 |
In many areas of the world, environmental degradation in and around human settlements is undermining prospects for both socioeconomic justice and ecological sustainability. To explore the issues involved in this worldwide problem, Keith Pezzoli focuses on a dramatic instance of conflict that grew out of the unauthorized penetration of human settlements into the Ajusco greenbelt zone, a vital part of Mexico City's ecological reserve. The heart of the book is the story of what happened when residents of the Ajusco settlements fought relocation by proposing that the areas be transformed into productive ecology settlements. Pezzoli draws upon urban and regional planning theory and practice to examine biophysical as well as ethical and social sides of the story, and he uses the Mexican experience to identify planning strategies to link economy, ecology, and community in sustainable development. -- Publisher description.
Author | : Deborah Potts |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786990571 |
From Britain’s ‘Generation Rent’ to Hong Kong’s notorious ‘cage homes’, societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. The social consequences have been profound, with a lack of affordable housing resulting in overcrowding, homelessness, broken families and, in many countries, a sharp decline in fertility. In Broken Cities, Deborah Potts offers a provocative new perspective on the global housing crisis arguing that the problem lies mainly with demand rather than supply. Potts shows how market-set rates of pay and incomes for vast numbers of households in the world’s largest cities in the global South and North are simply too low to rent or buy any housing that is legal, planned and decent. As the influence of free market economics has increased, the situation has worsened. Potts argues that the crisis needs radical solutions. With the world becoming increasingly urbanized, this book provides a timely and urgent account of one of the most pressing social challenges of the 21st century. Exploring the effects of the housing crisis across the global North and South, Broken Cities is a warning of the greater crises to come if these issues are not addressed.