Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila

Gavin Shatkin

ISBN 10: 0754647862 / ISBN 13: 9780754647867

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754647862
• ISBN 13: 9780754647867
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 439 grams

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Synopsis

An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is an urgent need to address this urban crisis. Recently, innovative approaches have focused on the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in setting up self-help and participatory programmes. This incisive book questions whether communities have the ability to organize, engage government and undertake major redevelopment. It also examines when and how mobilization of communities occurs and if such organizations possess any influence in the intensely political decision-making arena of urban land development. It is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the experience of CBOs in Manila, as the Philippine government has undertaken what is perhaps the most radical experiment in decentralized, participatory approaches to urban governance in the world. The book emphasizes the external conditions that influence patterns of collective action within communities and addresses issues such as the local political economy and the communities' place within the global economy.

About the Author

Dr Gavin Shatkin is Assistant Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.