| Description |
xxi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Ethnoscapes : current challenges in the environmental social sciences |
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Ethnoscapes (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
1. Some thoughts on people, place and development / Amos Rapoport -- 2. 'Uneven development' of people and places: Outline of a theory of built form / Necdet Teymur -- 3. Development alternatives of the human ecosystem: An integrative and comprehensive approach / Anis-Ur-Rahmaan -- 4. Ecological community planning: Concepts and principles for eco-community development / Yung-Jaan Lee -- 5. The 'Enablement' approach and settlement upgrading in South Africa / Adenrele Awotona and Michael Briggs -- 6. In search of a spatial culture / Amr F. Elgohary and Julienne Hanson -- 7. Location and development: People, place and power in Alexandria's inner-city neighbourhoods / Amr El-Sherif -- 8. Planning and designing rural settlements: The Algerian experience / Lamine Mahdjoubi and Adenrele Awotona -- 9. Gender and structural adjustment: A case study in North-Eastern Ghana / Mariama Awumbila -- 10. Societal values in development process: Place-making in Sokoto, Nigeria / Umar G. Benna |
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11. Community self build in Britain: The potential and the reality / Christine Holman -- 12. Understanding user transformation of public housing / Rafik Salama -- 13. The making of territories: A case study in South Africa / Maano F. Ramutsindela -- 14. Upgrading of townships in South Africa after apartheid / Ola Uduku -- 15. Modernist housing policy and tradition / Peter King -- 16. A study of a house type with an open space / Aysu Baskaya and Martin Symes -- 17. Is informal housing the destiny of the urban poor? / Gulsun Saglamer, Hulya Turgut and Meltem Aksoy [et al.] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index |
| Subject |
Community development -- Africa.
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Housing.
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Human ecology.
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Community development.
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Human settlements -- Africa.
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Human settlements.
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Space (Architecture) -- Africa.
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| Author |
Awotona, Adenrele A.
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Teymur, Necdet.
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| LC no. |
96079944 |
| ISBN |
1859723209 |
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