TY - BOOK AU - Grashoff,Udo TI - Comparative approaches to informal housing around the globe T2 - Fringe SN - 9781787355217 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - UCL Press KW - Housing KW - Squatter settlements KW - Electronic Books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Towards critique and differentiation : comparative research on informal housing; Illegal housing : the case for comparison; Towards a political economy of toleration of illegality : comparing tolerated squatting in Hong Kong and Paris; Squatting in Leiden and Leipzig in the 1970s and 1980s : a comparison of informal housing practices in a capitalist democracy and a communist dictatorship; Squatters and the socialist heritage : a comparison of informal settlements in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan; Squatting activism in Brazil and Spain : articulations between the right to housing and the right to the city; Favela vs asphalt : suggesting a new lens on Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and formal city; Between informal and illegal in the Global North : planning law, enforcement and justifiable noncompliance; Shanty settlements in nineteenth-century Europe : lessons from comparison with Africa; Squats across the Empire : a comparison of squatting movements in post-Second World War UK and Australia; Failed takeover : the phenomenon of right-wing squatting; Concluding remarks UR - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089971/1/Comparative-Approaches-to-Informal-Housing-Around-the-Globe.pdf ER -