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Clara Salazar (Ed.) - Informality Revisited: Latin American Perspectives on Housing, the State and the Market - 9781119141105 - V9781119141105
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Informality Revisited: Latin American Perspectives on Housing, the State and the Market

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Informality Revisited offers an overview of recent debates about Latin American government programmes for the formalisation of informal settlements and housing provision in a neo-liberal context. Contributions from Latin American researchers analyse the contradictions in government actions and evaluate the consequences for urban poverty.

Editor(s): Salazar, Clara. Series: Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Informality Revisited offers an overview of recent debates about Latin American government programmes for the formalisation of informal settlements and housing provision in a neo-liberal context. Contributions from Latin American researchers analyse the contradictions in government actions and evaluate the consequences for urban poverty.

  • Brings together nine leading Latin American researchers in the field of land and housing policy to address the question of informal urban development, particularly in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru
  • Highlights the interrelationships between the production of formal and informal urban development and demonstrates how economic and legal reforms intended to make the market more effective and ... Read more
  • Explores how Latin American governments are applying neo-liberal principles to land and housing policies
  • Investigates the implications of government actions for the production and commodification of urban land as well as the formalisation of property rights and provision of housing for the urban poor 
  • Contributors draw on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data, including census results and previously unpublished official statistics 
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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Language
English
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Bulletin of Latin American Research Book Series
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781119141105
SKU
V9781119141105
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Clara Salazar (Ed.)
Clara Salazar is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de México. She has given guest lectures in many universities in Latin America countries and elsewhere and has published four books, as author, co-author or editor, and around fifty book chapters and articles in specialist journals. Her research analyses informal urban development, focusing ... Read more

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