Title: The Low-Cost Rental Housing Market in Bangkok, 1987 (1989) Article in: Habitat International, vol. 13, issue 3 Authors: Shlomo Angel, Parpis Amtapunth First published: 1989 Pages: 173-185 Overview: This pilot study of the low-cost rental housing market in Bangkok forms a part of a more general investigation by the Bangkok Land Management Study Team of the housing delivery system aimed at [...]
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The Low-Cost Rental Housing Market in Bangkok, 1987 (1989)
October 9, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
Bangkok Slum Lands (1989)
October 9, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy, Urban Spatial Structure
Title: Bangkok Slum Lands: Policy Implications of Recent Findings (1989) Article in: Cities Authors: Shlomo Angel, Sopon Pornchokchai First published: May, 1989 Pages: 136‑146 Overview: This pilot study of the size and growth of slum lands in Bangkok from 1974 to 1984 forms part of the general investigation by the Bangkok Land Management Study Team entitled The Land and Housing Markets of [...]
Where Have All the People Gone? (1988)
October 8, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Global Urban Expansion
Title: Where Have All the People Gone?: Urbanization and Counter-Urbanization in Thailand Article in: Journal of the Siam Society Authors: Shlomo Angel First published: 1988 Pages: 245-259 Overview: This essay seeks to explode some of the prevailing myths regarding migration and settlement in Thailand. Between 1961 and 1982 for example, the rural population of Thailand grew from 24 to 43 million people. The [...]
Land Sharing as an Alternative to Eviction (1988)
October 8, 2013 in Articles & Manuscripts, Housing Policy
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 [...]
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October 6, 2013 in Housing Policy, Unpublished Articles & Manuscripts
Title: Mutual‑Aid: House Construction through Building Groups (1986) -unpublished Article Information: a training module prepared for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, Nairobi Authors: Shlomo Angel Date: 1986 Overview: Each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 [...]
