Communities, Land and Social Innovation : Land Taking and Land Making in an Urbanising World

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, it demonstrates changes in land and housing tenancy systems, showing how communities have revolted against the land hunger of speculators, agrobusiness and technocratic local authorities. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, discussing different modes of solidarity action and commons building to ensure both access to land and housing security. Chapters also introduce a critical governance perspective to land tenure dynamics and examine the increasingly prominent hybridisation of land use rights systems and land markets, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice. Academics studying urban and regional planning, social innovation, and commoning will find this book to be essential reading. It will also interest policy makers and civil society organisations looking for a stronger understanding of land dynamics and urbanisation in order to set up new forms of land governance. Contributors include: P. Abramo, A.M. Brown, N. Busscher, N. Carofilis, C. Collado Solís, V. d'Auria Anitha, C.E. Estrada, L.A. Flores Hernandez, E.T. Gbeckor-Kove, A. Hasan, I. Hiergens, R. Krueger, A. Mehmood, L. Miranda, F. Moulaert, O.A. Nyapala, B. Pak, C. Parra, G. Payne, O. Peek, M. Quintana Molina, A. Sadiq, K. Scheerlinck, A. Suseelan, PVK Rameshwar, C. Tavares e Silva, G. Testori, S. Ud Din Ahmed, P. Van den Broeck, H. Verschure [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Copyright 2 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Contents 3 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Contributors 5 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Acknowledgements 7 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] The hybrid of land taking and land making 9 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] The COMP-FUSE city_ informal land market and urban structure in Latin American Metropolises 26 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Options for intervention_ increasing tenure security for community development and urban transformation 49 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Analysing the governance of land grabbing from a combined political ecology and environmental justice perspective 67 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] What we learned from HABITAT 1976 to HABITAT 2016 85 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] The changing nature of informal settlements in the megapolis in South Asia_ the case of Karachi, Pakistan 99 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] The hillside poor at risk_ Land trafficking in Jose Carlos Maritegui at the outskirts of Lima, Peru 117 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Addressing the housing shortage without building cities_ The Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, Brazil 133 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Urban planning, land management and the stubborn realities of informal urbanisation in peri-urban areas around Accra, Ghana 144 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Vulnerability of urban ecology of Bangalore_ an examination of its contention with the politics of land administration 161 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Co-producing alternative urban imaginaries in the contested riverbank settlements of Guayaquil, Ecuador 174 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Revisiting the Mexican Ejido_ envisioning alternative land tenures in Guadalajara, Mexico 189 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Informal power structures_ towards provision of services and security of tenure 203 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Self-government and social innovation in Atucucho, Quito 222 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Community management of the waterfront_ exploring the significance of social and cultural identity 236 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Challenging the agro-industrial governance of land use rights_ the experience of community-supported agriculture in peri-urban Flanders 254 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Studying the interrelationship of the formal and informal processes in the making of collective spaces_ the case of Place Liedts and environs, Schaerbeek, B 271 [9781788973762 - Communities, Land and Social Innovation] Index 290 "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, it demonstrates changes in land and housing tenancy systems, showing how communities have revolted against the land hunger of speculators, agrobusiness and technocratic local authorities. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, discussing different modes of solidarity action and commons building to ensure both access to land and housing security. Chapters also introduce a critical governance perspective to land tenure dynamics and examine the increasingly prominent hybridisation of land use rights systems and land markets, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice. Academics studying urban and regional planning, social innovation, and commoning will find this book to be essential reading. It will also interest policy makers and civil society organisations looking for a stronger understanding of land dynamics and urbanisation in order to set up new forms of land governance"-- Provided by publisher