Author: Stephen Conn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupancy (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Squatters' Rights of Favelados
Author: Stephen Conn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupancy (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupancy (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
A Poverty of Rights
Author: Brodwyn M. Fischer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804752907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804752907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.
What's in a Name?
Author: Richard Harris
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442626968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In What's in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442626968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In What's in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered together experts from around the world in order to provide a truly global framework for the study of the urban periphery.
Search For Justice
Author: Jack Spence
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000310973
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
I originally became interested in the law and society nature of this research project through a law school and then graduate political science educational background. This led me to consider courts in a number of settings, including the popular tribunals in Cuba. Before going to Chile, I wrote a lengthy paper comparing local court institutions in tribal, peasant, urban U.S. and Cuban settings. As that paper was being completed, Allende had been elected and proposals for neighborhood courts were in the air. This coincided with the above interests and with the urban political and Latin American foci I had in graduate school.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000310973
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
I originally became interested in the law and society nature of this research project through a law school and then graduate political science educational background. This led me to consider courts in a number of settings, including the popular tribunals in Cuba. Before going to Chile, I wrote a lengthy paper comparing local court institutions in tribal, peasant, urban U.S. and Cuban settings. As that paper was being completed, Allende had been elected and proposals for neighborhood courts were in the air. This coincided with the above interests and with the urban political and Latin American foci I had in graduate school.
The Invention of the Favela
Author: Licia do Prado Valladares
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive and exotic—representation of poverty. The study traces how the term "favela" emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals. The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares's foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil's evolution into the twenty-first century.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive and exotic—representation of poverty. The study traces how the term "favela" emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals. The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares's foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil's evolution into the twenty-first century.
Housing Needs and Policy Approaches
Author: Willem Van Vliet
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Drawing upon research from six continents, Housing Needs and Policy Approaches analyzes the social problems involved with providing housing in the industrialized nations and in the Third World. The book focuses on four areas of concern: current trends in housing in specific Western countries, the role of Western governments in creating this housing, housing provisions in less developed nations, and the relationship of societal structure and housing, particularly with respect to the decentralization of population occurring in many regions.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Drawing upon research from six continents, Housing Needs and Policy Approaches analyzes the social problems involved with providing housing in the industrialized nations and in the Third World. The book focuses on four areas of concern: current trends in housing in specific Western countries, the role of Western governments in creating this housing, housing provisions in less developed nations, and the relationship of societal structure and housing, particularly with respect to the decentralization of population occurring in many regions.
Community Livability
Author: Fritz Wagner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136512551
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities". Chapters examine the various influencing factors such as the effect and importance of transportation options/alternatives to the elderly, the significance of walkability as a factor in developing a livable and healthy community, the importance of good open space providing for human activity and health, restorative benefits, the importance of coordinated land use and transportation planning, and the relationship between livability and quality of life. While much of the discussion of this topic is usually theoretical and abstract, Wagner and Caves use case studies from North America, Brazil and the United Kingdom to provide substantive examples of initiatives implemented across the world. This book fills an important gap in the literature on livable communities and at the same time assists policy officials, professionals and academics in their quest to develop livable communities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136512551
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities". Chapters examine the various influencing factors such as the effect and importance of transportation options/alternatives to the elderly, the significance of walkability as a factor in developing a livable and healthy community, the importance of good open space providing for human activity and health, restorative benefits, the importance of coordinated land use and transportation planning, and the relationship between livability and quality of life. While much of the discussion of this topic is usually theoretical and abstract, Wagner and Caves use case studies from North America, Brazil and the United Kingdom to provide substantive examples of initiatives implemented across the world. This book fills an important gap in the literature on livable communities and at the same time assists policy officials, professionals and academics in their quest to develop livable communities.
América Latina
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the City
Author: Roger W. Caves
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415252253
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
A first-class work of reference that will be both an essential resource for independent study as well as a useful aid in teaching: a solid but also provocative starting point for wider exploration of the city.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415252253
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
A first-class work of reference that will be both an essential resource for independent study as well as a useful aid in teaching: a solid but also provocative starting point for wider exploration of the city.
Methodology For Land And Housing Market Analysis
Author: Gareth Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135370672
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The aim of this book is to bring methods of land-market and land-price analysis to the foreground. It relates substantive research findings for land and urban development and blends these with a focus on research design and methodology. Its findings have relevance beyond the topics of housing and land: it broaches the whole question of how research design and general approach may lead to fundamentally different findings, different priorities, and different policy prescriptions and preoccupations. It is based on work done in the Third World, but is also relevant to studies of the industrialized world.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135370672
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The aim of this book is to bring methods of land-market and land-price analysis to the foreground. It relates substantive research findings for land and urban development and blends these with a focus on research design and methodology. Its findings have relevance beyond the topics of housing and land: it broaches the whole question of how research design and general approach may lead to fundamentally different findings, different priorities, and different policy prescriptions and preoccupations. It is based on work done in the Third World, but is also relevant to studies of the industrialized world.