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Slums
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Slums

Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments where state policies and market actors play a role.

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-17
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship), identity-driven practices of solidarity, and power-driven forms of co-optation and control. The paradox, or not, of the invisibility of these informal practices is their ubiquity. Expertly practised by insiders but often hidden from outsi...

The Migration Conference 2024 Programme
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 95

The Migration Conference 2024 Programme

  • Categories: Law

The Migration Conference 2024 Programme with full session details. The TMC 2024 is hosted by Iberoamericana University in Mexico City and in collaboration with many international partners led by Transnational Press London and International Business School, Manchester, UK

Localizing Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Localizing Development

This book examines the conceptual foundations of the participatory approach to local development, assesses the evidence of its efficacy, and draws key lessons for policy.

Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02-06
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing. Providing both methodological reflections and practical examples, they compare informal settlements, unauthorised occupation of flats, illegal housing construction and political squatting in different regions of the world. Subjects covered include squatter settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, squatting activism in Brazil and Spain, right-wing squatting in Germany, planning laws and informality across countries in the Global North, and squatting in post-Second World War UK and Australia.

Thirsty Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Thirsty Cities

Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.

The Migration Conference 2024 Abstracts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

The Migration Conference 2024 Abstracts

  • Categories: Law

The Migration Conference 2024 Abstracts for 5 days full of research, debates and discussions on migration and all relevant topics and areas from Iberoamericana Universidad in Mexico City.

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 571

The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-17
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (from informal welfare to informal employment and entrepreneurship), identity-driven practices of solidarity, and power-driven forms of co-optation and control. The paradox, or not, of the invisibility of these informal practices is their ubiquity. Expertly practised by insiders but often hidden from outsid...

Master Plans and Encroachments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Master Plans and Encroachments

Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them. For the new administrative capital of Pakistan designed in 1959 by Greek architect and planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Islamabad's master plan offers a clear template of formal urban design within which informal spaces and processes have been articulated. Dr...

Urban Mobility in a Global Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Urban Mobility in a Global Perspective

For the first time in human history, the majority of the world's population is now no longer living in rural areas, but in cities. Whereas in the industrialised countries urban and transport development has now reached a certain degree of saturation, it is proceeding in other regions of the world with an enormous dynamism. The primary concern of this study is to present for the first time a survey of global urban and transport development in order to gain an overview of the magnitude of the global challenges. Against this background, the study concludes by proposing a direction for future deliberations, in the name of determining an adequate response to the looming problems. Oliver Schwedes has the professorship in Integrated Transport Planning at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany. His research areas include urban and transport policy and planning. Ebook Download