Christien Klaufus is Assistant Professor of Human Geography at CEDLA. She is the author of Urban Residence: Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador (Berghahn Books 2012) and a number of scholarly articles on urbanization and cultural dynamics in Latin America.

“The main contribution of this book is to offer different disciplinary approaches and methodologies that illuminate and critique the fundamental contradictions of urban housing, experience, and citizenship in Latin America….[The]  introduction does an admirable job of framing the main themes.” • Hispanic American Historical Review“…the book offers a row of good, interesting articles providing new perspectives on a series of topics related to the growth and change processes in Latin American cities…the book is definitively a must for everyone interested in recent development trends of Latin American cities and can only be warmly recommended.” • Anthropos“I highly recommend this collection of essays; the volume offersmuch-needed insight into low-income communities that have often been portrayed as a stigma in LatinAmerican urbanism. In addition, the book represents a major contribution to the fields of anthropology, sociology, urban ethnography, human geography, architecture, and Latin American studies and the thoughtful way in which the concepts are analyzed offers a chance to rethink Latin American urbanism in a more critical way.” • Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

• List of Figures and TablesPrefaceIntroduction: Taking up Residency: Spatial Reconfigurations and the Struggle to Belong in Urban Latin AmericaChristien KlaufusPART I: THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXTChapter 1. The Consolidation of the Latin American City and the Changing Bases for Social OrderBryan R. RobertsChapter 2. Proximity, Crime, Politics and Design: Medellín’s Popular Neighbourhoods and the Experience of BelongingGerard Martin and Marijke MartinPART II: FAMILY AND BELONGING IN CONSOLIDATED SETTELEMENTSChapter 3. Debe Ser Esfuerzo Propio: Aspirations and Belongings of the Young Generation in the Old Barriadas of Southern Lima, PeruMichaela HordijkChapter 4. Housing Inheritance and Succession among Pioneer Squatters and Self Builders: A Mexican Case StudyErika Denisse GrajedaChapter 5. ‘Favela Modelo’: A Study on Housing, Belonging and Civic Engagement in a ‘Pacified’ Favela in Rio de Janeiro, BrasilPalloma MenezesPART III: SPACES OF THE URBAN MIDDLE CLASSChapter 6. Housing Policy in the City of Buenos Aires: Some Reflections on the Programa FederalFernando Ostuni and Jean-Louis Van GelderChapter 7. The Boom of High-Rise Apartment Buildings in Buenos Aires: New Spaces of Residentiality or a Motor of Disintegration?Jan Dohnke and Corinna HölzlChapter 8. Living With Style in My Casa GEO: Large-scale Housing Conjuntos in Urban MexicoCristina Inclán-ValadezPART IV: ARCHITECTURAL AND SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONSChapter 9. Illiterate Modernists: Tracking the Dissemination of Architectural Knowledge in Brazilian FavelasFernando Luiz LaraChapter 10. Towards Belonging: Design and Dwelling Practices in Santa Marta, ColombiaPeter KellettChapter 11. (Re)Building the City of Medellín: Beyond State Rhetoric vs. Personal Experience — A Call for Consolidated SynergiesJota (José) Samper and Tamera MarkoPART V: REFLECTIONSChapter 12. Home and Belonging: Reflections From Urban MexicoAnn VarleyChapter 13. One Block at a Time: Performing the NeighbourhoodArij OuweneelList of ContributorsIndex