Defending a Place in the City: Localities and the Struggle for Urban
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Predatory competition in the land market, the government's inability to provide housing for the urban poor, and the migration of thousands from the countryside have led to the growth of large squatter colonies in Metro Manila. This text maintains that, in context, squatting is the solution, no t a problem. Yet squatting is only a stepping stone towards a permanent placein the metropolis - the major goal on which local associations of the urban landless focus their struggle. This book dwells on the emergence and the life of these associations, detailing their struggle to secure a place in a city that has become an arena of global players and forces.
Author: Erhard Berner
Format: Paperback, 264 pages, 152mm x 229mm, 481 g
Published: 1998, University of Hawai'i Press, United States
Genre: Sociology & Anthropology: Professional
Predatory competition in the land market, the government's inability to provide housing for the urban poor, and the migration of thousands from the countryside have led to the growth of large squatter colonies in Metro Manila. This text maintains that, in context, squatting is the solution, no t a problem. Yet squatting is only a stepping stone towards a permanent placein the metropolis - the major goal on which local associations of the urban landless focus their struggle. This book dwells on the emergence and the life of these associations, detailing their struggle to secure a place in a city that has become an arena of global players and forces.