Communities, Land and Social Innovation

Edited by Pieter Van den Broeck, Professor of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, P&D Research Unit, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Asiya Sadiq, Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven, Belgium and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, NED University, Pakistan, Ide Hiergens, Research Fellow, Department of Architecture, KU Leuven and Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Monica Quintana Molina, Architect, MA Human Settlements, Consultant for ONU-Habitat, Colombia, Han Verschure, Emeritus Professor Human Settlements, Department of Architecture, Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning, KU Leuven, Belgium

‘The important and welcome contribution of the book is in enriching the studies of the politics of urbanization with multiple new case-studies from under-studied locations. The research locations presented in the book are abundant. Such a diversity enables us to explore various points along the spectrum of issues of community, housing, and land that characterize so much of the current urban processes.’

• Contents:1 The hybrid of land taking and land making 1Pieter Van den Broeck, Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens,Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure and Frank Moulaert2 The COMP-FUSE city: informal land market and urbanstructure in Latin American Metropolises 18Pedro Abramo3 Options for intervention: increasing tenure security forcommunity development and urban transformation 41Geoffrey Payne4 Analysing the governance of land grabbing froma combined political ecology and environmental justiceperspective 59Nienke Busscher, Robert Krueger and Constanza Parra5 What we learned from HABITAT 1976 to HABITAT 2016 77Han Verschure6 The changing nature of informal settlements in themegapolis in South Asia: the case of Karachi, Pakistan 91Arif Hasan7 The hillside poor at risk? Land trafficking in Jose CarlosMariátegui at the outskirts of Lima, Peru 109Carlos Escalante Estrada and Liliana Miranda8 Addressing the housing shortage without building cities:The Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, Brazil 125Carolina Tavares e Silva9 Urban planning, land management and the stubbornrealities of informal urbanisation in peri-urban areasaround Accra, Ghana 136Eden Tekpor Gbeckor-Kove10 Vulnerability of urban ecology of Bangalore: anexamination of its contention with the politics of landadministration 153Anitha Suseelan and PVK Rameshwar11 Co-producing alternative urban imaginaries in thecontested riverbank settlements of Guayaquil, Ecuador 166Olga Peek, Nelson Carofilis and Viviana d’Auria12 Revisiting the Mexican Ejido: envisioning alternativeland tenures in Guadalajara, Mexico 181Luis Angel Flores Hernandez13 Informal power structures: towards provision of servicesand security of tenure 195Saeed Ud Din Ahmed, Abid Mehmood, Alison M. Brown14 Self-government and social innovation in Atucucho, Quito 214Giulia Testori15 Community management of the waterfront: exploring thesignificance of social and cultural identity 228Okoko Anita Nyapala16 Challenging the agro-industrial governance of landuse rights: the experience of community-supportedagriculture in peri-urban Flanders 246Carmen Collado Solís and Pieter Van den Broeck17 Studying the interrelationship of the formal and informalprocesses in the making of collective spaces: the case ofPlace Liedts and environs, Schaerbeek, Brussels 263Asiya Sadiq, Kris Scheerlinck and Burak PakIndex 282