Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work

Large 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247949
• ISBN13: 9780812247947
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"