Informal Land Rights and Infrastructure Retrofit: A Typology of Land Rights in Informal Settlements

Land Registration in the Context of Informal Settlements

The paper is a kind of "back to basics" response to the scepticism which disciplines with a tradition for social science approaches tend to have towards land registration in context of informal settlements. The general argument is that specific efforts are needed to improve interdiciplinary discussion. The paper suggests three ways to improve the general understanding of the importance of land ...

Informal Institutions and Property Rights

In recent years, the call for strong and clear property rights has grown in law and development circles. In the landmark book The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, de Soto put forth the claim that “strong and clear” property rights, formalized rather than informal, are necessary for economic efficiency and for the protection of the poor, who occu...

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

Land Use Regression Modeling of Outdoor Noise Exposure in Informal Settlements in Western Cape, South Africa

In low- and middle-income countries, noise exposure and its negative health effects have been little explored. The present study aimed to assess the noise exposure situation in adults living in informal settings in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. We conducted continuous one-week outdoor noise measurements at 134 homes in four different areas. These data were used to develop a land use ...

The Impact of Land Tenure Security on Housing Investment at Informal Settlements (The Case of Eslamabad Neighborhood, Tehran)

In recent years, tenure security has been one of the main objectives of improvement projects in ‎urban poor settlements. Despite lots of international studies initiated in this field, it has received ‎little attention in Iran. The main aim of this paper is to assess the influence of tenure security on ‎the level of household investment in housing. Survey method is considered as the methodology ...