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Self-help housing, the poor, and the state in the Caribbean

Title
Self-help housing, the poor, and the state in the Caribbean / edited by Robert B. Potter and Dennis Conway.
Publication
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press ; Jamaica : The Press University of the West Indies, c1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Potter, Robert B.
  • Conway, Dennis, 1941-
Description
xiv, 299 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Abstracts also in French and Spanish.
Contents
Caribbean housing, the state, and self-help : an overview / Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter -- Houses in the Caribbean : homes and heritage / Brian J. Hudson -- Housing conditions, vernacular architecture, and state policy in Barbados / Mark R. Watson and Robert B. Potter -- Housing and the state in the eastern Caribbean / Robert B. Potter -- Self-help housing in Jamaica / L. Alan Eyre -- Obstacles to low-income housing assistance in the capitalist periphery : the case of Jamaica / Thomas Klak -- From cooperative socialism to a social housing policy? : declines and revivals in housing policy in Guyana / Linda Peake -- A critical review of state involvement in housing in Trinidad and Tobago / Linda Hewitt -- Self-help housing strategies in Cuba : an alternative to conventional wisdom? / Kosta Mathéy -- From the bohío to the caserío : urban housing conditions in Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany -- Housing and the state in the French Caribbean / Stephanie A. Condon and Philip E. Ogden -- Caribbean housing futures : building communities for sustainability / Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter.
Call Number
Sc E 99-1262
ISBN
  • 0870499637 (pbk. : alk. paper : The University of Tennessee Press)
  • 9766400245 (The Press University of the West Indies)
LCCN
96025220
OCLC
34875760
Title
Self-help housing, the poor, and the state in the Caribbean / edited by Robert B. Potter and Dennis Conway.
Imprint
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press ; Jamaica : The Press University of the West Indies, c1997.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
Abstracts also in French and Spanish.
Added Author
Potter, Robert B.
Conway, Dennis, 1941-
Research Call Number
Sc E 99-1262
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