1. Introduction: Do we need innovation in housing policy? Mass production, community-based upgrading, and the politics of urban land in the Global South Paavo Monkkonen 2. The social housing burden: comparing households at the periphery and the centre of cities in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico Nora Ruth Libertun de Duren 3. User-based design for inclusive urban transformation: learning from ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ dwelling practices in Guayaquil, Ecuador Olga Peek, Michaela Hordijk and Viviana d’Auria 4. Is innovative also effective? A critique of pro-poor shelter in South-East Asia Ashok Das 5. Resilience at the margins: informal housing recovery in Bachhau, India, after the 2001 Gujarat quake Anuradha Mukherji 6. The de-politicisation of housing policies: the case of Borei Keila land-sharing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Giorgio Talocci and Camillo Boano 7. Management of low-income condominiums in Bogot_a and Quito: the balance between property law and self-organisation Rosa E. Donoso and Marja Elsinga 8. Housing policy in mining towns: issues of race and risk in South Africa Lochner Marais
Biography
Paavo Monkkonen is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, USA. He researches, writes, and teaches about the ways housing and urban policy shape urban development and social segregation in cities around the world.
