Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal »enabling« ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book.
With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat).

Astrid Ley (Prof. Dr.) leitet den Lehrstuhl Internationaler Städtebau an der Universität Stuttgart und vertritt u.a. den internationalen Master-Studiengang »MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design« (IUSD). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Informalität, Wohnungsversorgung, städtische Governance und Verstädterung.

Md Ashiq Ur Rahman (MD), is a professor of Urban and Rural Planning Discipline of Khulna University, Bangladesh. He is highly invested in the field of pro-poor housing initiatives in Bangladesh and other developing countries. He gained his MSc in the Urban Development Planning programme at University College London and was awarded with a PhD in Urban Studies from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His research interest and career motivation lies in pro-poor urban development initiatives. He believes that individuals have their own capabilities and combining those capabilities towards democratic development is essential.

Josefine Fokdal (Dr.-Ing.), geboren 1980 in Kopenhagen, arbeitet als Forscherin und Dozentin am Institut für Internationalen Städtebau der Universität Stuttgart. Nach ihrem Diplom in Architektur und Internationalem Städtebau an der TU Berlin (DE) und einem Master der Ball State University (USA) promovierte Josefine 2014 an der TU Berlin zum Thema: relationaler Raum im Kontext mit der Megastadt Guangzhou, China. Ihre Forschung und Publikationen umfassen die Bereiche Raumtheorie, Wohnen, Governance, Ko-produktive Prozesse und Urbanisierung mit einem geografischen Schwerpunkt auf Asien. Seit 2017 ist sie Mitherausgeberin von der Schriftenreihe Habitat International.