Self-Build Experience

Willem Salet is Emeritus Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam.Camila L. D’Ottaviano is an architect, urban planner and faculty member in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo. Stan Majoor is Professor of Urban Management at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Daniël Bossuyt is a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

• Introduction: Self- building as a right to the city - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and Daniël BossuytPart I: The changing decors of governanceThe institutionalisation of self-build governance: exemplifying governance relationships in São Paulo/Brazil/Latin America - Camila D’Ottaviano, Suzana Pasternak, Jorge Bassani and Caio Santo AmoreContested governance of housing for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions: the pivotal role of commissioning - Willem Salet and Daniël BossuytSelf-building in contested spaces: livelihoods and productivity challenges of the urban poor in Africa - Nicky Pouw and Marina HumblotPart II: Changing housing regimesMy House, My Life Programme – Entities: two self-management experiences in the city of São Paulo - Camila D’Ottaviano, Adelcke Rossetto Netto, Cecília Andrade Fiúza, Flávia Massimetti and Juliana do Amaral Costa LimaThe Solano Trindade housing occupation as an urban self-management project in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro - Luciana Corrêa do Lago, Fernanda Petrus and Irene de Queiroz e MelloSelf-management and the production of habitat: a case study of the Alianza Solidaria Housing Cooperative in Quito - Hernán Espinoza Riera, Andrés Cevallos, Bernardo Rosero, Irina Godoy and Janaina MarxResidents’ experiences and self-build models in Homeruskwartier, Almere - Daniël BossuytResidential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul - Zeynep Enlil and İclal DinçerExperiences of the African city: urban areas in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Adama BelemviréImplications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions: exemplifying the cases of São Paulo and Amsterdam - Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor, Suzana Pasternak and Willem SaletFrom neighbourhood self-organisation to citybuilding: the case of Bathore, Kamëz (Albania) - Ledio AllkjaConclusion: The normalisation of moral ownership - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor andDaniël Bossuyt