Tradition, Location and Community : Place-Making and Development Book

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	List of Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Some thoughts on people, place and development	7
2	'Uneven development' of people and places: Outline of a theory of built form	27
3	Development alternatives of the human ecosystem: An integrative and comprehensive approach	35
4	Ecological community planning: Concepts and principles for eco-community development	47
5	The 'Enablement' approach and settlement upgrading in South Africa	59
6	In search of a spatial culture	81
7	Location and development: People, place and power in Alexandria's inner-city neighbourhoods	121
8	Planning and designing rural settlements: The Algerian experience	141
9	Gender and structural adjustment: A case study in North-Eastern Ghana	161
10	Societal values in development process: Place-making in Sokoto, Nigeria	173
11	Community self build in Britain: The potential and the reality	189
12	Understanding user transformation of public housing	205
13	The making of territories: A case study in South Africa	225
14	Upgrading of townships in South Africa after apartheid	235
15	Modernist housing policy and tradition	251
16	A study of a house type with an open space	261
17	Is informal housing the destiny of the urban poor?	281
	References	293
	Index	311