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Popular housing and urban land tenure in the Middle East. case studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.
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020$a9789774165405
041$aE.
084$aNA380.A23 2012
100$aAbabsa, Myriam, editor.
245$aPopular housing and urban land tenure in the Middle East.$bcase studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey.$ht
260$aCairo.$bAmerican University in Cairo Press.$c2012.
300$axix, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
505$ 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 / 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 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$aHousing policy --Middle East.
650$aUrbanization --Middle East.
650$aLand use, Urban --Middle East.
700$aDupret, Baudouin, and Denis, Eric, editors. :