Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe

By:

Grashoff, Udo Ed

Publication details: London UCL Press 2020Description: xviii,267pISBN:

9781787355224

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.5 GRA

Contents:

Contents List of figures vii List of tables xi List of contributors xii Series editors' preface xvii Editor's preface 1. Towards critique and differentia on informal housing Udo Grashoff and Fengzhuo 1 2. Illegal housing: The case for comparison 22 Alan Gilbert 3. Towards a political economy of toleration of illegality: Comparing tolerated squatting in Hong Kong and Paris 39 Alan Smart and Thom 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 66 Udo Grashoff, Charlotte van Rooden, Merel Snoep and Bart van der Steen 5. Squatters and the socialist ~ heritage: A comparison of informal settlements in 1' 'Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan 95 Eliza Isabaeva 6. Squatting activism in Brazil and Spain: Articulations between the right to housing and the right to the city110 Clarissa Campos and Miguel A Martinez 7. Favela vs asphalt: Suggesting a new lens on Rio de Janeiro's favelas and formal city 130 Theresa Williamson 8. Between informal and illegal in the Global North: Planning law, enforcement and justifiable noncompliance Rachelle Alterman and Ines Calor 150 9. Shanty settlements in nineteenth-century Europe: Lessons from comparison with Africa 186 Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun 10. Squats across the Empire: A comparison of squatting movements in post-Second World War UK and Australia 202 Iain McIntyre 11. Failed takeover: The phenomenon of right-wing squatting 223 Jakob Warnecke 12. Concluding remarks 238 Udo Grashoff Bibliography 243 Index 263

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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables xi
List of contributors xii
Series editors' preface xvii
Editor's preface
1. Towards critique and differentia on informal housing
Udo Grashoff and Fengzhuo 1
2. Illegal housing: The case for comparison 22
Alan Gilbert
3. Towards a political economy of toleration of illegality: Comparing tolerated squatting in Hong Kong and Paris 39
Alan Smart and Thom
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 66
Udo Grashoff, Charlotte van Rooden, Merel Snoep and Bart van der Steen
5. Squatters and the socialist ~ heritage: A comparison of informal settlements in 1' 'Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan 95
Eliza Isabaeva
6. Squatting activism in Brazil and Spain: Articulations between the right to housing and the right to the city110
Clarissa Campos and Miguel A Martinez
7. Favela vs asphalt: Suggesting a new lens on Rio de Janeiro's
favelas and formal city 130
Theresa Williamson
8. Between informal and illegal in the Global North: Planning
law, enforcement and justifiable noncompliance
Rachelle Alterman and Ines Calor 150
9. Shanty settlements in nineteenth-century Europe: Lessons
from comparison with Africa 186
Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun
10. Squats across the Empire: A comparison of squatting movements
in post-Second World War UK and Australia 202
Iain McIntyre
11. Failed takeover: The phenomenon of right-wing squatting 223
Jakob Warnecke
12. Concluding remarks 238
Udo Grashoff
Bibliography 243
Index 263

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