| Description |
335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Analyses, contexts and solutions / Leslie Kilmartin -- 1. Housing markets in Third World cities: research and policy into the 1990s / Carole Rakodi -- 2. Urban housing policy in India: context, shifts and implications / Harjinder Singh -- 3. Urban housing in the People's Republic of China / Mary Jo Huth -- 4. Housing in Brazil: diagnosis and challenges / Suzana Pasternak Taschner -- 5. Low-income housing policies in the development of Brasilia: a critical review -- 6. Urban policy, housing market and urban regeneration / Lucia Maria M. Bogus -- 7. Incorporating appropriate technology in self-help housing: the Dominican Republic experience / Patricia Klobus Edwards -- 8. Who owns, who rents: tenure choice in a West African city / A. Graham Tipple and Kenneth G. Willis -- 9. Households and their housing in Oaxaca Mexico: the view from the bottom / Earl W. Morris, Mary Winter and Arthur D. Murphy -- 10. Third World shelter policy: solutions and problems for housing the poor / Charles L. Choguill -- 11. Regeneration of low-income housing and squatter settlement areas in Nairobi, Kenya: partnership relation between state and private capital / Makau Kiamba -- 12. Social participation and housing in Cuba / Kosta Mathey -- 13. Housing in Nicaragua / Roy Darke with D. Alexander, J. Darke and A. Manogue -- 14. Affordable decent housing: expanding the stock through assisted upgrading by incumbent residents / Naomi Carmon -- 15. Low-cost housing finance in developing countries: with reference to Egypt / Medhat M. Hassan |
| Notes |
Contributed papers; outcome of the activities of the Research Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International Sociological Association |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Housing policy -- Developing countries.
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Housing -- Developing countries.
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| Author |
Harjinder Singh, 1951-
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Kilmartin, Leslie.
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International Sociological Association. Research Committee on Housing and the Built Environment.
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| LC no. |
92900510 |
| ISBN |
8170222842 |
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