Useful LinksSlum-Dweller Organisations
Shack / Slum Dwellers International
Abhlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers' Movement South Africa
ResearchPlay Slum's position is based largely on Mike Davis's work in Planet of Slums.
Planet of Slums at Google books
Richard Pithouse's critique of Planet of Slums
Other Formative Texts:
Urban Informality by Ananya Roy, Nezar AlSayyad
Dispossessed by Mark Kramer
Kibera
Slum discourse, media representations and maisha mtaani in Kibera, Kenya by Brian Ekdale (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
Flying Toilet
World Toilet Day: Kibera slum seeks to ground 'flying toilets'
Gecekondus
The Politics of Squatter (Gecekondu) Studies in Turkey: The Changing Representations of Rural Migrants in the Academic Discourse by Tahire Erman (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
The Enclosure of Urban Space and Consolidation of the Capitalist Land Regime in Turkish Cities by Utku Balaban (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
IMF, World Bank
Neoliberal Policy And The Growth Of Slums
The World Bank, Turner and Sen - Freedom in the Urban Arena Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Slums As Expressions Of Social Exclusion: Explaining The Prevalence Of Slums In African Countries by Ben C. Arimah
Trade Liberalisation and Poverty by L Alan Winters
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: The Evidence so Far by L Alan Winters (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
Hernando De Soto
On The Mystery Of Capital And The Myths Of Hernando De Soto: What Difference Does Legal Title Make? by ALAN GILBERT
The De Soto Delusion by John Gravois
John Turner
A double irony: the originality and influence of John F.C. Turner by Richard Harris (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
Rem Koolhaas
http://newleftreview.org/II/33/matthew-gandy-learning-from-lagos (subscription required)
Slum Boosterism
How slums can save the planet by Stewart Brand
Boomtown slum
Slavoj Zizek
Nature and its Discontents (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
Shack / Slum Dwellers International
Abhlali baseMjondolo Shackdwellers' Movement South Africa
ResearchPlay Slum's position is based largely on Mike Davis's work in Planet of Slums.
Planet of Slums at Google books
Richard Pithouse's critique of Planet of Slums
Other Formative Texts:
Urban Informality by Ananya Roy, Nezar AlSayyad
Dispossessed by Mark Kramer
Kibera
Slum discourse, media representations and maisha mtaani in Kibera, Kenya by Brian Ekdale (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
Flying Toilet
World Toilet Day: Kibera slum seeks to ground 'flying toilets'
Gecekondus
The Politics of Squatter (Gecekondu) Studies in Turkey: The Changing Representations of Rural Migrants in the Academic Discourse by Tahire Erman (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
The Enclosure of Urban Space and Consolidation of the Capitalist Land Regime in Turkish Cities by Utku Balaban (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
IMF, World Bank
Neoliberal Policy And The Growth Of Slums
The World Bank, Turner and Sen - Freedom in the Urban Arena Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Slums As Expressions Of Social Exclusion: Explaining The Prevalence Of Slums In African Countries by Ben C. Arimah
Trade Liberalisation and Poverty by L Alan Winters
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: The Evidence so Far by L Alan Winters (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
Hernando De Soto
On The Mystery Of Capital And The Myths Of Hernando De Soto: What Difference Does Legal Title Make? by ALAN GILBERT
The De Soto Delusion by John Gravois
John Turner
A double irony: the originality and influence of John F.C. Turner by Richard Harris (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)
Rem Koolhaas
http://newleftreview.org/II/33/matthew-gandy-learning-from-lagos (subscription required)
Slum Boosterism
How slums can save the planet by Stewart Brand
Boomtown slum
Slavoj Zizek
Nature and its Discontents (this is an academic paper so you have to log in)