Development Paradigms for Urban Housing in BRICS Countries

This book is a concise treatise of the alternative paradigms used in BRICS countries to tackle urban housing shortages. There are a number of alternative methods for meeting these shortages which BRICS countries have adopted. These alternatives may agree

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Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Rao and Jennifer Day

Development Paradigms for Urban Housing in BRICS Countries

Piyush Tiwari • Jyoti Rao • Jennifer Day

Development Paradigms for Urban Housing in BRICS Countries

Piyush Tiwari University of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jennifer Day University of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jyoti Rao University of Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

ISBN 978-1-137-44609-1 ISBN 978-1-137-44610-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-44610-7

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Contents

1

Conceptualizing Housing for All

2

Brazil’s Tryst with Housing

21

3

Housing in Russia

57

4

Housing Development in a Developing India

83

5

China’s Land and Housing Reforms: An Institutional and Empirical Timeline

141

6

Housing in South Africa

183

7

Toward a Philosophical Evaluation of Housing for  All in BRICS Economies

221

Index

1

251

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List of Figures

Fig. 1.1

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Bundle of opportunities (or benefits) of housing; beneficiaries as per income segment; and the providers of housing The relation between stages of life of an individual/ household and their choice of housing as per their financial capacity (low, medium, or high) Conceptual framework for housing for all Urban transformation of Brazil (percent population of total population) Net rural–urban migration (millions) Share o