The State, Displaced Urban Poor and City Redevelopment

Twice Displaced: Katrina and the Redevelopment of the Magnolia

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From Urban Renewal in the United States to Inner-City Redevelopment in China

Foreword: Recent Developments in Urban Redevelopment

Redevelopment of Urban Village in Shenzhen

DEDICATION To my parents and family for their endless love and support. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to Kathleen Lugosch and Stephen Schreiber for their academic advices and kind help. Urban Villages are a specific phenomenon raised in modern China due to the high-speed economic development and urbanization in recent three decades. And there are social, economic, cultural and architectural ...

Kaantabay sa Kauswagan - An Urban Poor Program in Naga City

The Kaantabay sa Kauswagan (or Partners in Development) Program is a social amelioration program primarily designed to empower squatters and slum dwellers which comprise some 25 percent of the city population residing in 21 urban barangays of Naga City. So far, it has resettled 2,017 families to relocation sites with a combined area of 33 hectares; secured homelots for 789 squatter families; an...