Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe / edited by Udo Grashoff.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Fringe | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: London : UCL Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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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
Summary: Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe breaks new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.
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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

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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe breaks new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.

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