Slums : How Informal Real Estate Markets Work / Susan M. Wachter, Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birch, Eugenie L., Editor.

Chattaraj, Shahana, Editor.

Wachter, Susan M., Editor.

Series:

City in the twenty-first century book series.

The City in the Twenty-First Century

Standardized Title:

Slums (2016)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Real property--India--Social aspects.

Real property.

Real property--Brazil--Social aspects.

Slums--India--Social aspects.

Slums.

Slums--Brazil--Social aspects.

Real property--Case studies.

Slums--Case studies.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments where state policies and market actors still do play a role. In this volume, contributors examine how the form and function of informal real estate markets are shaped by legal systems governing property rights, by national and local policy, and by historical and geographic particularities of specific neighborhoods. Their essays provide detailed portraits of individuals and community organizations, revealing in granular detail the working of informal real estate markets, and they review programs that have been implemented in unconventional settlements to provide lessons about the effectiveness and implementation challenges of different approaches.Chapters explore the relationships between informality, state policies, and market forces from a range of disciplinary perspectives and on different scales, from an analysis of the relationship between regulations and housing in 600 developing world cities to an ethnographic account of the buying and selling of houses in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. While many of the book's contributors focus on the emerging economies of India and Brazil, the conclusions drawn illustrate dynamics relevant to developing countries throughout the Global South. The diversity of perspectives combines to create a rich understanding of an important, complex, and understudied topic.Contributors: Arthur Acolin, Sai Balakrishnan, Eugenie L. Birch, José Brakarz, Shahana Chattaraj, Sebastian Galiani, David Gouverneur, Yvonne Mautner, Paavo Monkkonen, Vinit Mukhija, Janice E. Perlman, Lucas Ronconi, Bish Sanyal, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Patrícia Cezário Silva, Susan M. Wachter.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India

Chapter 2. Comparative Evidence on Urban Land-Use Regulation Bureaucracy in Developing Countries

Chapter 3. Urban Land Titling: Lessons from a Natural Experiment

Chapter 4. The Formalization of Informal Real Estate Transactions in Rio’s Favelas

Chapter 5. Tenure Regularization Programs in Favelas in Brazil

Chapter 6. Property Markets Without Property Rights: Dharavi’s Informal Real Estate Market

Chapter 7. Periurban Land Markets in the Bangalore Region

Chapter 8. Rehousing Mumbai: Formalizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment

Chapter 9. Tenure Regularization: Process and Experiences in Latin America

Chapter 10. Making a Difference in the Predominantly Informal City

Chapter 11. Informal Land Markets: Perspectives for Policy

Notes

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780812292572

081229257X

OCLC:

944536099