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 [...]
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The Building Together Project in Bangkok (1980)
The Implementation of Habitat’s Guideline for Action No. 12 (1979)
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)
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 Delivery System in Asia (1978)
Title: The Low‑Income Housing Delivery System in Asia Article in: Low‑Income housing: Technology and Policy, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Vol.3 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Yih‑Yi Chen, Vidyadhar Deshpande, Rashidul Khan, Fashirdjal Noor, Vitaliano Sabalo and Upali Vandebona First published: 1978 Pages: 1177‑1218 Overview: The focus of this article is the entire system for delivering low-income housing in Asia. Understanding the housing situation [...]
The Low-Income Housing System in Bangkok (1977)
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 [...]
Seventeen Reasons Why the Squatter Problem Can’t Be Solved (1976)
Title: Seventeen Reasons Why the Squatter Problem Can’t Be Solved Article in: Ekistics, Vol. 41, No. 242 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Stanley Benjamin First published: January, 1976 Pages: 20‑26 Overview: Third World societies are faced with a difficult challenge — shelter — the task of assuring that everyone is adequately housed. Are we really willing to confront this challenge — to solve the [...]
Urban Transport Expenditures (1972)
Title: Urban Transport Expenditures Article in: Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association; Vol. 29, Issue 1 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Geoffrey M Hyman First published: April 1972 Pages: 105-123 Overview: Expenditures on transport in urban areas have been the major explanatory variables in spatial economic theories of the city. Full Text: Urban Transport Expenditures (PDF)
Urban Spatial Interaction (1971)
Title: Urban Spatial Interaction Article in: Environment and Planning; Vol. 4, No.1 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Geoffrey M Hyman First published: November 1971 Pages: 99-118 Overview: This paper centers on the development of a geometrical representation of movement and spatial interaction in urban areas, as distinct from the network representation commonly used in modern studies. Full Text: Urban Spatial Interaction (PDF)
Urban Travel Time (1971)
Title: Urban Travel Time Article in: Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association; Vol.27 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Geoffrey M Hyman First published: January 1971 Pages: 85-99 Overview: The city is not an undifferentiated terrain and travel does not occur along straight-line paths at constant velocities. Variations in travel velocities at different locations bend the minimum time paths away from regions of high [...]
Urban Velocity Fields (1970)
Title: Urban Velocity Fields Article in: Environment and Planning; Vol. 2, No. 2 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Geoffrey M Hyman First published: 15 January, 1970 Pages: 211-224 Overview: The city is not an undifferentiated terrain and travel does not occur along straight-line paths at constant velocities. Variations in travel velocities at different locations bend the minimum time paths away from regions of high congestion. [...]