Land Sharing as an Alternative to Eviction (1988)

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 between slum dweller and landlords to share the land. Its wider objective is to illustrate the role the land could play in the resolution of the housing problems in many Third World cities.

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