| Description |
1 online resource |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed Janurary 27, 2020). |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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. |
| Subject |
Housing.
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Housing & homelessness.
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Housing. (OCoLC)fst00962245
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
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| ISBN |
9781787355217 (electronic book) |
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1787355217 (electronic book) |
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