{"product_id":"the-selfbuild-experience-9781447348429","title":"The SelfBuild Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, this book uses an international comparative perspective to investigate the phenomenon of self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas, examining the tensions between regulation and self-regulatory initiatives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book refreshingly treats self-construction as a right to the city. As many of the chapters show, this practice, which emerges 'from below', has become an integral, often institutionalized, part of the urban self-regulation process.” Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.\u003cbr\u003e“Provides a powerful interrogation of the role of low-income residents in the articulation of their own livelihoods, claiming their rights and transforming policies at the political level.” Raquel Rolnik, University of São Paulo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Self- building as a right to the city - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and Daniël Bossuyt Part I: The changing decors of governance The institutionalisation of self-build governance: exemplifying governance relationships in São Paulo\/Brazil\/Latin America - Camila D’Ottaviano, Suzana Pasternak, Jorge Bassani and Caio Santo Amore Contested governance of housing for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions: the pivotal role of commissioning - Willem Salet and Daniël Bossuyt Self-building in contested spaces: livelihoods and productivity challenges of the urban poor in Africa - Nicky Pouw and Marina Humblot Part II: Changing housing regimes My House, My Life Programme – Entities: two self-management experiences in the city of São Paulo - Camila D’Ottaviano, Adelcke Rossetto Netto, Cecília Andrade Fiúza, Flávia Massimetti and Juliana do Amaral Costa Lima The Solano Trindade housing occupation as an urban self-management project in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro - Luciana Corrêa do Lago, Fernanda Petrus and Irene de Queiroz e Mello Self-management and the production of habitat: a case study of the Alianza Solidaria Housing Cooperative in Quito - Hernán Espinoza Riera, Andrés Cevallos, Bernardo Rosero, Irina Godoy and Janaina Marx Residents’ experiences and self-build models in Homeruskwartier, Almere - Daniël Bossuyt Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul - Zeynep Enlil and İclal Dinçer Experiences of the African city: urban areas in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Adama Belemviré Implications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions: exemplifying the cases of São Paulo and Amsterdam - Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor, Suzana Pasternak and Willem Salet From neighbourhood self-organisation to citybuilding: the case of Bathore, Kamëz (Albania) - Ledio Allkja Conclusion: The normalisation of moral ownership - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and Daniël Bossuyt","brand":"Bristol University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408516030807,"sku":"9781447348429","price":75.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447348429.jpg?v=1730503178","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-selfbuild-experience-9781447348429","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}