Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending write by Robert M. Buckley. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Thirty Years of World Bank Shelter Lending available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "As England's Industrial Revolution started the process of urbanization that has since characterized development throughout the world, a poet worried about the ""dark satanic mills"" that were such a fundamental part of this revolution. However, despite his misgivings, he also suggested that it was necessary for societies to arm themselves with ""chariots of fire"" and other weapons so that they could master this process. In a somewhat more prosaic poetic vein World Bank President Robert McNamara launched the bank's shelter assistance programs saying that 'If cities do not begin to deal more constructively with poverty, poverty may begin to deal more destructively with cities.' These concerns would appear to have even more resonance today as the population of cities in developing countries increasing by unprecedented levels of more than 1 billion people per year for the next 15 years. This magnitude suggests the scale of the increase in the investment in shelter needed to meet the needs of this growing population."
Urban Warfare
Urban Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Warfare write by Raquel Rolnik. This book was released on 2019-03-26. Urban Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperation across the world. The financialization of housing has become a global catastrophe, leaving millions desperate and homeless. Since the 2008 financial collapse, models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. Using examples from across the globe, Rolnik shows how our cities have been sold to construction companies and banks, while supported by government-facilitated schemes, such as “the right to buy” subsidies and micro-financing. Our homes and neighbourhoods have become the “last subprime frontiers of capitalism,” organised by those who benefit the most.
The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition
The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition write by Andrew T. Carswell. This book was released on 2012-05-31. The Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since publication of the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Housing in 1998, many issues have assumed special prominence within this field and, indeed, within the global economy. For instance, the global economic meltdown was spurred in large part by the worst subprime mortgage crisis we’ve seen in our history. On a more positive note, the sustainability movement and “green” development has picked up considerable steam and, given the priorities and initiatives of the current U.S. administration, this will only grow in importance, and increased attention has been given in recent years to the topic of indoor air quality. Within the past decade, as well, the Baby Boom Generation began its march into retirement and senior citizenship, which will have increasingly broad implications for retirement communities and housing, assisted living facilities, aging in place, livable communities, universal design, and the like. Finally, within the last twelve years an emerging generation of young scholars has been making significant contributions to the field. For all these reasons and more, we are pleased to present a significantly updated and expanded Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of Housing.
A World of Homeowners
A World of Homeowners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World of Homeowners write by Nancy Kwak. This book was released on 2018-09-28. A World of Homeowners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Latin America, Scandinavian housing experts explained that "housing is too important a commodity to be subjected to the same general market conditions as other goods", but the Americans ridiculed such a stance. The Cold War was fought with bricks and mortar, not just small, hot wars in poor places and the threat of nuclear Armageddon. Privatisation began in Malaysia in the 1940s; in West Germany, Taiwan, Burma and South Korea in the 1950s; India in 1964; Jordan in 1965; Brazil in 1966; Guatemala and Nigeria in 1967; and the Philippines (again) in 1968. In the 1960s, the US granted loans to expand the private housing sectors in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. They began housing projects in Rhodesia, Zambia and Mali. They moved into Senegal in 1972, Botswana in 1973, Tanzania in 1974 and Kenya in 1975 - all the while spreading the American dream.
Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis
Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis write by Aoife Nolan. This book was released on 2014-10-09. Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.
