Search Results for: Urban Governance And Informal Settlements

The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized t

This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia. It addresses the question of whether Surakarta’s strategy for h

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution

Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they mus

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the