TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grashoff,Udo
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe / 
T2  - Fringe
SN  - 9781787355217
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Housing
KW  - fast
KW  - Housing & homelessness
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe breaks new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/81366/
ER  -