1st Edition
Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia Coming of an Age
List of Tables. List of Figures. Foreword by Yap Kioe Sheng. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. List of Contributors. Introduction: Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia: Coming of an Age Urmi Sengupta and Annapurna Shaw Theme 1: National Urban Housing Policy 1. The Transformations of Housing regime and Its Impacts on Urbanisation: the case of China Jie Chen 2. Housing and Urban Transformations in Japan Richard Ronald and Oana Druta 3. The Political Ecologies of Housing in Indonesia Abidin Kusno 4. Issues of Urban Liveability and Public Policy in Bangladesh Syed Abu Hasnath and S Ameen Theme 2: Institutions and Agents enabling Housing Delivery 5. The Nexus between Government and Private Developers in Malaysia’s housing sector A-R Abdul-Aziz, J. H. M Tah, A. L. Olanrewaju and A. U. Ahmed 6. Creating Mixed-Income Neighbourhoods Unintentionally: Public Housing Residualization and Socioeconomic Segregation in Hong Kong Paavo Monkkonen and Xiaohu Zhang Theme 3: Housing Policy and Urban Renewal 7. Speculative self-destruction, gateways for hyper-redevelopment in Seoul, South Korea Joonwoo Kim and Bruno De Meulder 8. Unravelling Redevelopment in the Megacity context of India: The case of Mumbai Binti Singh and Manoj Parmar Theme 4: How People House Themselves 9. Negotiating Housing in a Heritage city: A Study of Mahayyawa Low-income Settlement in Kandy, Sri Lanka Fazeeha Azmi 10. Governing the Housing Market in post-reform China: Price Controls and Regional Inequalities Mengqui Wang 11. Rental practices in two informal settlements in Hyderabad, India Nikhilesh Sinha 12. Identification, Materiality and Housing Transformations in Mumbai Chitra Venkataramani. Index
Biography
Urmi Sengupta is Lecturer in Spatial Planning at the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
Annapurna Shaw is Professor at the Public Policy and Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
