The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized t

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution

Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements links the discourses of informal urbanism with spatial justice in the context of in situ governmental programmes orient

Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature d

Public Space in Informal Settlements: The Barrios of Bogotá contributes to the debate on informal settlements by viewing them as an opportunity to understand d