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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, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Potter, Robert B.
  • Conway, Dennis, 1941-
Description
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Low-income housing > Caribbean Area
  • Self-help housing > Caribbean Area
  • Housing policy > Caribbean Area
  • Housing policy
  • Low-income housing
  • Self-help housing
  • Wohnungspolitik
  • Selbstbau
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Wohnungspolitik
  • Selbstbau
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Caribbean Area
  • Westindien
  • Westindien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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.
ISBN
  • 0870499637
  • 9780870499630
  • 9766400245
  • 9789766400248
LCCN
96025220
OCLC
  • ocm34875760
  • 34875760
  • SCSB-14260210
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library