Development Poverty and Politics

Name: Development Poverty and Politics
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Putting Communities in the Driver’s Seat

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Routledge Studies in Development and Society

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Top down ...bottom up ...what works? This book explores development from the perspective of the poor. Who are they? What lives do they live? What matters to them? And most importantly, what can they do about it? Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of their own environment, and how governments can work with them. How do communities and conditions drive behavior? What interventions are appropriate and how can we approach development imaginatively? This is not about usurping governance -- but revisiting structures that the developed world has come to accept, and placing the power of decision in the hands of the people it affects. Nor it is about money ...it's about people, and about how we can make our world work for everyone.

Author Biography:

Richard Martin is an architect/town planner who became engaged with informal settlements when he started working in Zambia in the 1960s. He taught in the field of sites and services and upgrading at Bouwcentrum International Education. He has written widely and worked in many countries in Africa in the field of housing and informal settlements. Ashna Mathema is a city planner/architect specializing in low-income housing and urban development. Her work in informal and underserviced settlements spans 20 countries, mostly in Africa, and East and South Asia. Through in-depth field work and personal interviews with local residents, she draws on their aspirations, struggles, and successes to establish a development process that is participatory and more responsive to their needs.

Release date NZ

August 15th, 2011

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Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

23 Line drawings, black and white; 49 Halftones, black and white; 72 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

290

Series

Routledge Studies in Development and Society

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780415807975

Product ID

13030246

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