Research Catalog

Title

Building cities : neighbourhood upgrading and urban quality of life / Eduardo Rojas, editor ; [translation from Spanish, Sarah Schineller].

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : Inter-American Development Bank : Cities Alliance ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,Harvard University : c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Rojas, Eduardo.
• Inter-American Development Bank.

Description

xvii, 251 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Construir ciudades. English

Subject

• Community development, Urban > Latin America > Congresses
• Neighborhood assistance programs > Latin America > Congresses
• Urban renewal > Latin America > Congresses
• Housing > Latin America > Congresses
• Urbanization > Latin America > Congresses
• Urban policy > Latin America > Congresses

Note

• "The contents of this book were discussed in the workshop 'Settlement Upgrading Programmes: Comparative Analysis of Lessons Learned and New Approaches', held in October 2008 in Montevideo, Uruguay."--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Building citizenship for a better quality of life -- Chapter 2. Income and security: prerequisites for citizenship -- Chapter 3. Land: a scarce resource -- Chapter 4. Preventing new informality -- Chapter 5. Neighbourhood upgrading programmes: lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean -- Chapter 6. Community participation: more than good intentions -- Chapter 7. The foundation of sustainability -- References -- About the authors -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781597821087 (pbk.)
• 159782108X (pbk.)

LCCN

2010921150

OCLC

• ocn601636940
• SCSB-14515281

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library