Description
Book SynopsisLarge 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 imple
Trade Review
"Likely to be a frequently used and often cited book, Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work provides an extraordinary array of information on a complex and highly idiosyncratic subject that existing studies treat only in a limited way." * Robert Buckley, The New School *
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1. Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India
—Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter
Chapter 2. Comparative Evidence on Urban Land-Use Regulation Bureaucracy in Developing Countries
—Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi
Chapter 3. Urban Land Titling: Lessons from a Natural Experiment
—Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
PART II. ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 4. The Formalization of Informal Real Estate Transactions in Rio's Favelas
—Janice E. Perlman
Chapter 5. Tenure Regularization Programs in Favelas in Brazil
—Patricia Cezario Silva and Yvonne Mautner
Chapter 6. Property Markets Without Property Rights: Dharavi's Informal Real Estate Market
—Shahana Chattaraj
Chapter 7. Periurban Land Markets in the Bangalore Region
—Sai Balakrishnan
PART III. PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 8. Rehousing Mumbai: Formulizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment
—Vinit Mukhija
Chapter 9. Tenure Regularization: Process and Experiences in Latin America
—José Brakarz
Chapter 10. Making a Difference in the Predominantly Informal City
—David Gouverneur
Chapter 11. Informal Land Markets: Perspectives for Policy
—Bish Sanyal
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index
