The Self-Build Experience

Introduction: Self- building as a right to the city - Willem Salet, Camila D'Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and Daniel Bossuyt





Part I: The changing decors of governance


The institutionalisation of self-build governance: exemplifying governance relationships in Sao Paulo/Brazil/Latin America - Camila D'Ottaviano, Suzana Pasternak, Jorge Bassani and Caio Santo Amore


Contested governance of housing for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions: the pivotal role of commissioning - Willem Salet and Daniel Bossuyt


Self-building in contested spaces: livelihoods and productivity challenges of the urban poor in Africa - Nicky Pouw and Marina Humblot





Part II: Changing housing regimes


My House, My Life Programme - Entities: two self-management experiences in the city of Sao Paulo - Camila D'Ottaviano, Adelcke Rossetto Netto, Cecilia Andrade Fiuza, Flavia Massimetti and Juliana do Amaral Costa Lima


The Solano Trindade housing occupation as an urban self-management project in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro - Luciana Correa do Lago, Fernanda Petrus and Irene de Queiroz e Mello


Self-management and the production of habitat: a case study of the Alianza Solidaria Housing Cooperative in Quito - Hernan Espinoza Riera, Andres Cevallos, Bernardo Rosero, Irina Godoy and Janaina Marx


Residents' experiences and self-build models in Homeruskwartier, Almere - Daniel Bossuyt


Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul - Zeynep Enlil and Iclal Dincer


Experiences of the African city: urban areas in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Adama Belemvire


Implications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions: exemplifying the cases of Sao Paulo and Amsterdam - Camila D'Ottaviano, Stan Majoor, Suzana Pasternak and Willem Salet


From neighbourhood self-organisation to citybuilding: the case of Bathore, Kamez (Albania) - Ledio Allkja





Conclusion: The normalisation of moral ownership - Willem Salet, Camila D'Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and


Daniel Bossuyt