Peter Herrle - From Local Action to Global Networks: Housing the Urban Poor

FROM LOCAL ACTION TO GLOBAL NETWORKS: HOUSING THE URBAN POOR

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From Local Action to Global Networks: Housing the Urban Poor

Edited by

PETER HERRLE
Technische Universitt Berlin

ASTRID LEY
University of Stuttgart, Germany

JOSEFINE FOKDAL
Berlin University of Technology, Germany

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Peter Herrle, Astrid Ley and Josefine Fokdal, and the contributors 2015

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From local action to global networks : housing the urban poor / [edited] by Peter Herrle, Astrid Ley and Josefine Fokdal.

pages cm. -- (Global urban studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-5051-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-5052-4 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-5053-1 (epub) 1. Housing policy--Developing countries--Citizen participation. 2. Urban poor--Housing--Developing countries. I. Herrle, Peter. II. Ley, Astrid. III. Fokdal, Josefine.

HD7391.F76 2015

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2015011894

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Peter Herrle, Astrid Ley and Josefine Fokdal

Somsook Boonyabancha and Thomas Kerr

Astrid Ley, Josefine Fokdal and Peter Herrle

Beate Ginzel

Interview with Gnter Meinert and Ren Peter Hohmann

Josefine Fokdal, Astrid Ley and Peter Herrle

Benjamin H. Bradlow

Anna Marie Karaos and Emma Porio

Klaus Teschner

Diana Mitlin

Liza Cirolia, Warren Smit and James Duminy

Matt Nohn

Peter Herrle, Josefine Fokdal and Astrid Ley

Somsook Boonyabancha is an architect and planner who worked with Thailands National Housing Authority from 1977 to 1989. In 1992, she helped set up the Urban Community Development Organization (UCDO) and continued to work with UCDO, becoming its director in 1998. She was director of CODI (formerly UCDO) since its establishment in 2000 until 2009 and is still active in CODIs work as an advisor and member of its governing board. She is a founding member and director of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), a regional organization, since its establishment in 1989, and since 2009 Somsook has facilitated the Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA) programme by ACHR.

Benjamin H. Bradlow is currently a PhD student in the department of sociology at Brown University, where he is also a National Science FoundationIGERT fellow of the Graduate Program in Development at the Watson Institute for International Studies. His research interests include urban politics, comparative historical sociology, and the political economy of development. He holds a Masters in City Planning (MCP), and Bachelor of Arts (BA) in history from Swarthmore College.

Liza Cirolia is a researcher at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Since 2012, she has been the coordinator of the Sustainable Human Settlements Citylab. Over the past ten years, Liza worked with NGOs in Oakland, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Cape Town. The majority of her work has focused on urban and social development. More recently, Lizas research has focused on the vexing issues of land, infrastructure, and housing in African cities. She received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters in City and Regional Planning at University of Cape Town.

James Duminy is a research officer at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and general secretary of the Association of African Planning Schools. He has previously worked as an analyst and writer for the Imagine Durban participatory planning project. His research interests centre on the history of urban planning and development in Africa, emerging approaches to theorizing African urbanisms, as well as the ethics of planning thought and praxis in Southern urban contexts.

Josefine Fokdal is lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Architecture and International Urbanism at Technische Universitt Berlin, Germany. In 2014 she was recipient of a Marie-Curie scholarship through the Urban Knowledge Network Asia, hosted by the Hong Kong University and she has been part of the research team on networking of urban poor in the housing field since 2011. Her research and writings spans the research fields of spatial theory, housing, urban governance and urban patterns of mega-cities in Asia. Her current research focuses on spatial perceptions and urban inequality in burial practices in contemporary cities in Southeast Asia.

Beate Ginzel has studied architecture in Dresden and Vaasa (Finland). From 19982003 she worked as an architect in Germany, the Netherlands and Tanzania. After this she was researcher and lecturer at the Department for Urban Development and Construction Management (ISB) at Leipzig University from 20042014. Her activities focused on urban development issues in Europe and the Global South. In 2012 she received her PhD in analysis of transnational networks of local communities in urban areas of the Global South. Since 2014 she is head of department at the office for urban renewal and housing promotion of the city of Leipzig.

Peter Herrle is professor for international urbanism. Until 2012 he was Director of the Habitat Unit at Faculty VI, Technische Universitt Berlin. He is also Advisory Professor at the Tongji University Shanghai. His research fields include topics such as megacities, urban informality, urban governance, housing, and cultural identity. He has also been a consultant to bilateral and international development agencies and NGOs in various fields including housing, decentralization, participative planning and urban planning. He is co-editor of the Habitat International Series at LIT-Publishers and co-editor of the Megacities and Global Change Series at Steiner Publishers.