New Communities for Urban Squatters : Lessons from the Plan That Failed in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Language: English

Published by Humana, 2012

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is a book on the interrelatedness of planning and implementation, on how policymakers and planners can be more effective in solving problems of providing new homes and settlements for urban squatters in developing countries. It treats a subject which in this year of publication, The United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Home less, has attracted global interest and concern. New Communities for Urban Squatters helps us to understand the ways in which the planning process is being redefined as it moves into the mainstream of urban change and political decisionmaking. Resettlement of squatters in new urban communities is one option open to planners to meet the housing and settlement needs of low-income resi dents of Third World cities. In too many cases, however, the plans have failed to achieve their objectives for reasons which could have been foreseen and dealt with at the outset. For resettlement and new community building to be a feasible solution, this book argues, plan implementation as well as plan preparation must be considered as basic and inseparable parts of the planning process. Success depends on getting right the five fundamental aspects of planning which have Third World-wide significance: appropriate organizational structures and coordination, finance, tech nology, cultural understanding, and public participation. If not, failure is sure to follow.…

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Title
New Communities for Urban Squatters : Lessons from the Plan That Failed in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Author
C. L. Choguill
Publisher
Humana
Publication year
2012
Condition
Neu
Binding
Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
1461290392
ISBN 13
9781461290391
Item weight
337 grams
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229x152x13 mm

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