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Somewhere to Live: Rising to the Global Urban Land and Housing Challenge

by Geoffrey Payne
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781788530965
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Practical Action Publishing
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 336
  • Original Price: GBP 65.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 649 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Developing & Emerging Countries, Urban & Land Use Planning, and Sociology / Urban


Despite millions of people being lifted out of poverty during recent decades, finding somewhere decent and affordable to live is proving increasingly difficult in urban areas around the world.


This is not by accident, but by design, since the forms of economic management that have held sway for four decades are intended to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a small elite, excluding the vast majority from meeting their basic needs. They force countless vulnerable, yet enterprising groups to migrate in search of a better life, and also ignore the rich cultural traditions and practices that provide a sense of belonging and identity that is a key feature of all places we love to visit or live in.


Since the planet can no longer sustain unlimited economic growth, and humanity is facing an existential crisis, land and housing have become an expression of this crisis. However, the Covid pandemic has provided a wake-up call to encourage us to change the way we treat both the planet and each other, and many examples exist of innovative, demand-sensitive approaches that provide the basis, not just for meeting the need for land and housing, but for providing a better quality of life.


This book shows how to turn a crisis into an opportunity.


Payne, Geoffrey: - Geoffrey Payne is a housing and urban development consultant based in London. He is author of Making Common Ground: Public-private Partnerships in Land for Housing also published by Practical Action Publishing.

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