Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East : Case Studies from ...

by Baudouin Dupret

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Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East : Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, Hardcover by Ababsa, Myriam (EDT); Dupret, Baudouin (EDT); Denis, Eric (EDT), ISBN 9774165403, ISBN-13 9789774165405, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Ababsa (social geography, French Institute for the Near East, Jordan), Dupret, and Denis draw together 13 case studies by urban planners, sociologists, and law, political science, and other scholars from the Middle East, Europe, and the US, who detail the changes in public policies towards neighborhoods characterized as irregular or illegal in the Middle East and the claim that this form of urban housing is the ordinary and majority condition. They take an approach to law that examines fluctuating legal practices and the impact of hegemonic state laws to ask how inhabitants in Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Istanbul, and Amman produce their legality through payment of taxes or fines, the use of a finance ministry's official forms, engineer's documents, notary documents, evidence requirements by the Cadastre Department, or the use of "customary" contracts. They discuss the methods used to create buildings in the form of streets and neighborhoods, and government policies like those meant to eradicate slums, legalize illegal housing, or rehabilitate and destroy informal settlements. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Oxford U. Press. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789774165405
• Condition: Fine

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