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Slums : how informal real estate markets work
- Title
- Slums : how informal real estate markets work / edited by Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Penn, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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- Description
- viii, 241 pages : illustrations, charts; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. 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 still do play a role. In this volume, contributors examine how the form and function of informal real estate markets are shaped by legal systems governing property rights, by national and local policy, and by historical and geographic particularities of specific neighborhoods. Their essays provide detailed portraits of individuals and community organizations, revealing in granular detail the working of informal real estate markets, and they review programs that have been implemented in unconventional settlements to provide lessons about the effectiveness and implementation challenges of different approaches. Chapters explore the relationships between informality, state policies, and market forces from a range of disciplinary perspectives and on different scales, from an analysis of the relationship between regulations and housing in six hundred developing world cities to an ethnographic account of the buying and selling of houses in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. While many of the book's contributors focus on the emerging economies of India and Brazil, the conclusions drawn illustrate dynamics relevant to developing countries throughout the Global South. The diversity of perspectives combines to create a rich understanding of an important, complex, and understudied topic. -- from dust jacket.
- Series Statement
- The city in the twenty-first century
- Uniform Title
- Slums (2016)
- City in the twenty-first century book series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-225) and index.
- Contents
- Urban governance and development of informality in China and India / Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter -- Comparative evidence on urban land-use regulation bureaucracy in developing countries / Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi -- Urban land titling : lessons from a natural experiment / Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky -- The formulation of informal real estate transactions in Rio's favelas / Janice E. Perlman -- Tenure regularization programs in favelas in Brazil / Patricia Cezario Silva and Yvonne Mautner -- Property markets without property rights : Dharavi's informal real estate market / Shahana Chattaraj -- Periurban land markets in the Bangalore region / Sai Balakrishnan -- Rehousing Mumbai : formulizing slum land markets through redevelopment / Vinit Mukhija -- Tenure regularization : process and experiences in Latin America / José Brakarz -- Making a difference in the predominantly informal city / David Gouverneur -- Informal land markets : perspectives for policy / Bish Sanyal.
- ISBN
- 9780812247947 (alk. paper)
- 0812247949 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015030117
- 99968975267
- OCLC
- ocn920551868
- 920551868
- SCSB-9398458
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries