Communities, Land and Social Innovation

Land Taking and Land Making in an Urbanising World

Edited by Pieter Van den Broeck, Professor of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, Asiya Sadiq, Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, NED University, Pakistan, Ide Hiergens, Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven and Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Monica Quintana Molina, Architect, MA Human Settlements, Consultant for ONU-Habitat, Colombia, Han Verschure, Emeritus Professor Human Settlements, Department of Architecture, Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning, P&D, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium

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. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice.

的重要和受欢迎的contribution of the book is in enriching the studies of the politics of urbanization with multiple new case-studies from under-studied locations. The research locations presented in the book are abundant. Such a diversity enables us to explore various points along the spectrum of issues of community, housing, and land that characterize so much of the current urban processes.’
– Tomer Dekel, Geography Research Forum

‘This interesting book offers a diversity of understandings of how joint efforts to access land and land tenure enable communities and empower them to be part of their own governance, not only through the official land development and planning processes but also through informal, collective and complex community social innovations. A must read for those who are interested in understanding the processes of land development through a new, community focussed lens.’
– Tuna Tasan-Kok, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands