Communities, land and social innovation : land taking and land making in an urbanising world

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    • Broeck, Pieter van den
    • Sadiq, Asiya
    • Hiergens, Ide
    • Molina, Monica Quintana
    • Verschure, Han
    • Moulaert, Frank

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Communities, land and social innovation : land taking and land making in an urbanising world

edited by Pieter Van den Broeck ... [et al.]

Edward Elgar Pub., c2020

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Other editors: Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens, Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure, Frank Moulaert

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This timely and thought-provoking book examines the contemporary struggle of communities over land ownership and use rights in rapidly urbanising areas. Analysing 12 key case studies from across four continents, it demonstrates changes in land and housing tenancy systems, showing how communities have revolted against the land hunger of speculators, agrobusiness and technocratic local authorities. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, discussing different modes of solidarity action and commons building to ensure both access to land and housing security. Chapters also introduce a critical governance perspective to land tenure dynamics and examine the increasingly prominent hybridisation of land use rights systems and land markets, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice. Academics studying urban and regional planning, social innovation, and commoning will find this book to be essential reading. It will also interest policy makers and civil society organisations looking for a stronger understanding of land dynamics and urbanisation in order to set up new forms of land governance. Contributors include: P. Abramo, A.M. Brown, N. Busscher, N. Carofilis, C. Collado Solis, V. d'Auria Anitha, C.E. Estrada, L.A. Flores Hernandez, E.T. Gbeckor-Kove, A. Hasan, I. Hiergens, R. Krueger, A. Mehmood, L. Miranda, F. Moulaert, O.A. Nyapala, B. Pak, C. Parra, G. Payne, O. Peek, M. Quintana Molina, A. Sadiq, K. Scheerlinck, A. Suseelan, PVK Rameshwar, C. Tavares e Silva, G. Testori, S. Ud Din Ahmed, P. Van den Broeck, H. Verschure

Table of Contents

Contents: 1 The hybrid of land taking and land making 1 Pieter Van den Broeck, Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens, Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure and Frank Moulaert 2 The COMP-FUSE city: informal land market and urban structure in Latin American Metropolises 18 Pedro Abramo 3 Options for intervention: increasing tenure security for community development and urban transformation 41 Geoffrey Payne 4 Analysing the governance of land grabbing from a combined political ecology and environmental justice perspective 59 Nienke Busscher, Robert Krueger and Constanza Parra 5 What we learned from HABITAT 1976 to HABITAT 2016 77 Han Verschure 6 The changing nature of informal settlements in the megapolis in South Asia: the case of Karachi, Pakistan 91 Arif Hasan 7 The hillside poor at risk? Land trafficking in Jose Carlos Mariategui at the outskirts of Lima, Peru 109 Carlos Escalante Estrada and Liliana Miranda 8 Addressing the housing shortage without building cities: The Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, Brazil 125 Carolina Tavares e Silva 9 Urban planning, land management and the stubborn realities of informal urbanisation in peri-urban areas around Accra, Ghana 136 Eden Tekpor Gbeckor-Kove 10 Vulnerability of urban ecology of Bangalore: an examination of its contention with the politics of land administration 153 Anitha Suseelan and PVK Rameshwar 11 Co-producing alternative urban imaginaries in the contested riverbank settlements of Guayaquil, Ecuador 166 Olga Peek, Nelson Carofilis and Viviana d'Auria 12 Revisiting the Mexican Ejido: envisioning alternative land tenures in Guadalajara, Mexico 181 Luis Angel Flores Hernandez 13 Informal power structures: towards provision of services and security of tenure 195 Saeed Ud Din Ahmed, Abid Mehmood, Alison M. Brown 14 Self-government and social innovation in Atucucho, Quito 214 Giulia Testori 15 Community management of the waterfront: exploring the significance of social and cultural identity 228 Okoko Anita Nyapala 16 Challenging the agro-industrial governance of land use rights: the experience of community-supported agriculture in peri-urban Flanders 246 Carmen Collado Solis and Pieter Van den Broeck 17 Studying the interrelationship of the formal and informal processes in the making of collective spaces: the case of Place Liedts and environs, Schaerbeek, Brussels 263 Asiya Sadiq, Kris Scheerlinck and Burak Pak Index 282

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