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

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.

Format: Book

Language: English

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

Subjects:

City planning > Middle East.
Housing policy > Middle East.
Land use, Urban > Middle East.
Urbanization > Middle East.

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Call Number: HD7358.2 .A3 A23 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.