Title: Land Sharing as an Alternative to Eviction: The Bangkok Experience Article in: Third World Planning Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Somsook Boonyabancha First published: May 1988 Pages: 107-127 Overview: This essays reflects upon five recent projects in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, where the housing problem of inner-city slum dwellers was resolved in an innovative manner by negotiating agreements [...]
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Land Sharing as an Alternative to Eviction (1988)
October 8, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Mutual‑Aid: House Construction through Building Groups (1986)
October 6, 2013 in Housing Policy, Unpublished Articles & Manuscripts
Title: Mutual‑Aid: House Construction through Building Groups (1986) -unpublished Article Information: a training module prepared for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, Nairobi Authors: Shlomo Angel Date: 1986 Overview: Each chapter in this module presents a set of issues related to mutual aid, usually in the form of questions. The purpose of the training sessions is to discuss these [...]
Slum Reconstruction: Land Sharing as an Alternative to Eviction (1983)
October 3, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Title: Slum Reconstruction: Land Sharing as an Alternative to Eviction Article in: Angel, Archer, Tanphiphat and Wegelin, editors, Land for Housing the Poor, Select Books, Singapore Authors: Shlomo Angel, Thipparat Chirathamkijkul First published: 1983 Pages: 430-460 Overview: The aim of this paper is to test the validity of one particular method of granting land tenure and improving the housing conditions of slum dwellers [...]
Land Tenure for the Urban Poor (1983)
October 3, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Title: Land Tenure for the Urban Poor Article in: Angel, Archer, Tanphiphat and Wegelin, editors, Land for Housing the Poor, Select Books, Singapore Authors: Shlomo Angel First published: 1983 Pages: 110‑142 Overview: Observers of slums and squatter settlements in the Third World have often noted that, left to their own resources, poor people gradually improve their shelter over time. Poor as [...]
Upgrading Slum Infrastructure (1983)
October 3, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Title: Upgrading Slum Infrastructure: Divergent Objectives in Search of a Consensus Article in: Third World Planning Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 Authors: Shlomo Angel First published: February 1983 Pages: 5-22 Overview: Infrastructure programmes are being pursued in many developing countries and we should be able to understand the underlying motives for pursuing them. To do so, instead of asking ‘What are [...]
Emphasis on Distribution (1981)
October 1, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy, Miscellaneous
Title: Emphasis on Distribution: Strategies for Small‑Scale Water Resource Development in Northeast Thailand Article in: Water Resources Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 3 Authors: Shlomo Angel, First published: June 1981 Pages: 483‑493 Overview: This paper discusses strategies for the development of water resources, emphasizing the delivery of reliable water supplies, for both domestic and production purposes, to every village and to every [...]
The Building Together Project in Bangkok (1980)
September 30, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Title: The Building Together Project in Bangkok: Erecting a New Neighbourhood on the Principle of Mutual Aid Article in: Peter Swan, editor, The Practice of People’s Participation: Seven Asian Experiences in Housing the Poor, Human Settlements Division, Asian Institute of Technology Authors: Shlomo Angel, Paul Chamniern Vorratnchaiphan First published: July 1980 Pages: 147-183 Overview: For people’s participation to be a [...]
The Implementation of Habitat’s Guideline for Action No. 12 (1979)
September 29, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Title: The Implementation of Habitat’s Guideline for Action No. 12: Human Settlements Education, Research, and Dissemination of Information at the Asian Institute of Technology Article in: Habitat International, Vol. 4, Nos. 1‑2 Authors: Shlomo Angel, J.H. de Goede First published: 1979 Pages: 191‑ 197 Overview: This paper was presented to the Regional Conference on Human Settlements, United Nations Economic and Social [...]
Sharing the Risk of Being Poor: Communal Saving Games in Bangkok (1978)
September 28, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy, Miscellaneous
Title: Sharing the Risk of Being Poor: Communal Saving Games in Bangkok Article in: Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 66, Part II Authors: Shlomo Angel, J.H. de Goede, Ramon C. Sevilla First published: July 1978 Pages: 123-145 Overview: When the commercial or government forms of credit are inaccessible, poor people are found to establish credit mechanisms amount themselves. Throughout the [...]
The Low-Income Housing System in Bangkok (1977)
September 27, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Title: The Low‑Income Housing System in Bangkok Article in: Ekistics, Vol. 44, No. 261 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Stanley Benjamin and Koos H. DeGoede First published: August, 1977 Pages: 78-85 Overview: The bureaucratic approach to the housing problem in developing countries can be termed the arithmetical approach. The arithmetical approach starts by establishing an unrealistic minimum standard for housing. This standard then [...]
