Search for Shelter - Writings on Land and Housing

In this book, Arif Hasan discusses the conflicts between ground realities, academic theory, governmental policies, and international interventions in the shelter sector. With the help of individual case studies, he goes into depths of the various issues faced, and in certain instances also gives recommendations to improve upon the situation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Glossary


• Introduction


• 1: The World Class City Concept and its Repercussions on Shelter-related Issues


• 2: Karachis Land and Housing Issues


• 3: The Changing Nature of the Housing Sector in Faisalabad


• 4: The Gentrification of Karachis Coastline


• 5: Land, CBOs, and the Karachi Circular Railway


• 6: The Lyari Expressway Evictions


• 7: Karachi: Urban Resource Centre


• 8: The Search for Shelter in Post-Soviet Central Asia


• 9: Communities and Social Housing


• 10: The Shahjalal Housing Trust Project in Sylhet, Bangladesh


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Arif Hasan is an architect, planner, activist, teacher, researcher, and the author of a large number of books, research papers, and monographs on anthropology, urban and rural development issues.

Zusammenfassung

With the help of individual case studies, he goes into the depths of the various issues faced, and in certain instances gives recommendations to improve the situation.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Arif Hasan
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780190702502
• ISBN: 978-0-19-070250-2
• Seiten: 262
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Politics & government, Politics and government, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness