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The paper focuses on the privatization of public rental housing in Kolkata. The State government has decided to sell to its sitting tenants, due to high maintenance costs and loopholes in the rent setting and allocation processes. The success of privatization of public housing in Kolkata is contingent upon the government’s capacity to turn its liabilities into assets for the future, fending off possible...
Privatization has been promoted as an urban reform for more than 40years. Although cities around the world have pursued privatization, it has not delivered the promised efficiency, voice and service integration gains. City managers recognize the challenges of market management for urban service delivery and the critical difference between a citizen and a consumer. This has led to new hybrid forms...
The majority of Asia’s cities are being constructed from private funding and by private labor. This has always been the case for so-called informal settlements. Recently, however, the newly acquired socioeconomic status, aspirations, and cultural horizons of the emergent professional and business middle classes in Asia have captured both popular imagination and critical academic attention. These classes...
The crucial objective of the paper is an analysis of the gated community phenomenon in the local context of the formation of the middle class in Poland, in order to understand how these estates function, not as physical objects, but rather as socio-cultural constructs. The paper uses the local framework to describe the social reality of Polish gated communities, employing critical discourse analysis...
This article presents key findings of the Right to the City Alliance’s report, We Call These Projects Home: Solving the Housing Crisis from the Ground Up, which documents the effects of public housing policies that are driven by disinvestment, demolition, and privatization. Importantly, the article’s findings and recommendations are based on quantitative and qualitative data from the people impacted...
The crucial objective of the paper is an analysis of the gated community phenomenon in the local context of the formation of the middle class in Poland, in order to understand how these estates function, not as physical objects, but rather as socio-cultural constructs. The paper uses the local framework to describe the social reality of Polish gated communities, employing critical discourse analysis...
This article examines variations in residents' responses to proposals to redevelop three public housing neighbourhoods in Dublin using Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and the outcomes their resistance achieved. It investigates the important role that structures of participation and representation and local social cohesion play in developing effective resident resistance to displacement and gentrification...
Greater Santiago, the capital of Chile, concentrates most of economic and political power of this nation and 35% of its population. It is a conurbation of 6 million inhabitants, comprising 37 municipalities without a metropolitan level authority, where large scale planning is executed by centralized authorities. The historic development of this metropolis was sharply modified by neoliberal policies...
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