Popular housing and urban land tenure in the Middle East : case studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey /

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Main Author: Ababsa, Myriam (Author)

Other Authors: Denis, Eric., Dupret, Baudouin.

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Language: English

Published: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2012.

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Call Number: HD7358.2 .A3 A23 2012

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245 1 0 |a Popular housing and urban land tenure in the Middle East :   |b case studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey /   |c edited by Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret, Eric Denis. 
264 1 |a Cairo ;   |a New York :   |b American University in Cairo Press,   |c 2012. 
300 |a xix, 347 pages :   |b illustrations, maps ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Introduction: forms and norms: questioning illegal urban housing in the Middle East / Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret, and Eric Denis -- 1. Mukhalafat in Damascus: the form on an informal settlement / Etienne Léna -- 2. Selling one's property in an informal settlement: a praxeological approach to a Syrian case study / Baudouin Dupret and Myriam Ferrier -- 3. Securing property in informal neighborhoods in Damascus through tax payments / Myriam Ferrier -- 4. Inhabitants' daily practices to obtain legal status for their homes and security of tenure: Egypt / Maqrion Séjourné -- 5. Vertical versus horizontal: constraints of modern living conditions in informal settlements and the reality of construction / Franziska Láue -- 6. The politics of sacred space in downtown Beirut (1853-2008) / Ward Vloeberghs -- 7. Shared social and juridical meanings as observed in Aleppo 'marginal' neighborhood / Zouhair Ghazzal -- 8. Secure land tenure?: stakes and contradictions of land titling and upgrading politics in the global Middle East and Egypt / Agnès Deboulet -- 9. The commodification of the Ashwaʼiyyat: urban land, housing market unification, and de Soto's interventions in Egypt / Eric Denis -- 10. Public politics toward informal settlements in Jordan (1965-2010) / Myriam Ababsa -- 11. Mülk Allahindir ('This house is God's property'): Legitimizing land ownership in the suburbs of Istanbul / Jean-François Pérpise -- 12. Law, rights, and justice in informal settlements: the crossed frames of reference of town planning in a large urban development project in Beirut / Valérie Clerc -- 13. The coastal settlements of Ouzaii and Jnah: analysis of an upgrading project in Beirut / Falk Jähnigen. 
650 0 |a City planning  |z Middle East. 
650 0 |a Housing policy  |z Middle East. 
650 0 |a Land use, Urban  |z Middle East. 
650 0 |a Urbanization  |z Middle East. 
700 1 |a Denis, Eric. 
700 1 |a Dupret, Baudouin.  |9 29320 
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