Research Catalog

Title

Somewhere to live : rising to the global urban land and housing challenge / Geoffrey Payne.

Author

Payne, Geoffrey K.

Publication

Warwickshire, UK : Practical Action Publishing, [2022]

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Description

xix, 316 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Housing > Political aspects
• Land use, Urban > Political aspects
• Low-income housing > Political aspects
• Pauvres > Logement
• Utilisation du sol
• Housing
• Land use
• Low-income housing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-306) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Key issues -- 1. Setting the scene -- 2. The cultural context -- 3. Cities, growth, and the climate crisis -- 4. The scourge of inequality -- 5. People on the move -- 6. Utopia or dystopia? Changing visions of urban development -- pt. II How we value urban land and housing -- 7. To have and to hold -- 8. The global move to market -- 9. From feudal to market in the UK: A property-owning democracy? -- 10. State land and housing management in China, Cuba, Ethiopia, and Vietnam -- 11. From state to market in Mongolia, Albania, and Cambodia -- 12. From customary to market: Lesotho and Vanuatu, with lessons from part two -- pt. III What needs to be done -- 13. Growth and sustainability -- 14. Managing urban land markets: From problems to progress in land management -- 15. Promoting tenure security and diversity -- 16. Spatial planning and land use for adequate housing -- 17. Homes not housing -- 18. Making it happen.

ISBN

• 9781788530965
• 1788530969
• 9781788531795
• 1788531795
• 9781788531832 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2021391322
• 99993170918
• 40031523965

OCLC

• on1292974469
• 1292974469
• SCSB-14473377

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Columbia University Libraries