Somewhere to Live: Rising to the global urban and housing challenge
- UK Practical Action Publishing 2022
- 316p.
Photos, Figures, Boxes and Table p.ix, Acknowledgements p.xiii, Foreword p.xvii, Part I: Key issues: 1. Setting the scene p.3, 2. The cultural context p.9, 3. Cities, growth, and the climate crisis p.21, 4. The scourge of inequality p.33, 5. People on the move p.43, 6. Utopia or dystopia? Changing visions of urban development p.53, Part II: How we value urban land and housing: 7. To have and to hold p.67, 8. The global move to market p.85, 9. From feudal to market in the UK: A property-owning democracy? P.99, 10. State land and housing management in China, Cuba, Ethiopia, and Vietnam p.113, 11. From state to market in Mongolia, Albania, and Cambodia p.133, 12. From customary to market: Lesotho and Vanuatu, with lessons from part two p.151, Part III: What needs to be done: 13. Growth and sustainability p.169, 14. Managing urban land markets: From problems to progress in land management p.187, 15. Promoting tenure security and diversity p.205, 16. Spatial planning and land use for adequate housing p.223, 17. Homes not housing, p.223, 18. Making it happen p.259, References p.269, Index p.307