| ISBN |
9789774165405 |
| Language |
E. |
| Shelf Location |
NA380.A23 2012 |
| Author |
Ababsa, Myriam, editor |
| Title |
Popular housing and urban land tenure in the Middle East. : case studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. |
| Publisher |
Cairo. : American University in Cairo Press. , 2012. |
| Description |
xix, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| 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 LeÌna -- 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 SeÌjourneÌ -- 5. Vertical versus horizontal: constraints of modern living conditions in informal settlements and the reality of construction / Franziska LaÌue -- 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 / AgneÌ€s Deboulet -- 9. The commodification of the Ashwaiyyat: 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 PeÌrpise -- 12. Law, rights, and justice in informal settlements: the crossed frames of reference of town planning in a large urban development project in Beirut / ValeÌrie Clerc -- 13. The coastal settlements of Ouzaii and Jnah: analysis of an upgrading project in Beirut / Falk Jähnigen. |
| Subject |
Housing policy --Middle East |
| Urbanization --Middle East |
| Land use, Urban --Middle East |
| Other name(s) |
Dupret, Baudouin, and Denis, Eric, editors. |
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