Urban Development and Civil Society: The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities Book

	Acronyms and Abbreviations
	List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
	Preface
	About the Authors
	Glossary
Pt. 1	Introduction: The Challenge of a Sustainable Urban Future - The Role of Institutions
1	Top-down and bottom-up: the challenge of cities in the new century	3
2	The state, the market and community: an analytical framework for community self-development	16
Pt. 2	Case Studies: Lessons from International Experience in Key Urban Development Issues
3	The role of civil society in shelter at the periphery: the experience of peri-urban communities in Maputo, Mozambique	33
4	The state, business and the community: abating industrial nuisance in Lahore, Pakistan	51
5	Urban public transport: the development of a regulatory role for NGOs in Pakistan	68
6	Informal development in the market socialist city: the case of the floating population of Beijing	87
7	Urban management and community development in Metro Manila	103
8	When community development becomes a political bargaining tool: the case for structural change in low income housing provision in Costa Rica	121
9	Community-based organizations and the struggle for land and housing in South Africa: urban social movements in transition	139
10	Renegotiating places: the experience of low-demand housing in Salford, England	154
Pt. 3	Analysis and Conclusions: Strengthening the Changing Role of Civil Society
11	Relationships between the state and civil society and their importance for sustainable development	175
12	Civil society and new social movements	192
	Notes	201
	References	213
	Index	224