Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia

Urmi Sengupta is Lecturer in Spatial Planning at the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Annapurna Shaw is Professor at the Public Policy and Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

• List of Tables. List of Figures. Foreword by Yap Kioe Sheng. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. List of Contributors. Introduction: Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia: Coming of an Age Theme 1: National Urban Housing Policy 1. The Transformations of Housing regime and Its Impacts on Urbanisation: the case of China 2. Housing and Urban Transformations in Japan 3. The Political Ecologies of Housing in Indonesia 4. Issues of Urban Liveability and Public Policy in Bangladesh Theme 2: Institutions and Agents enabling Housing Delivery 5. The Nexus between Government and Private Developers in Malaysia’s housing sector 6. Creating Mixed-Income Neighbourhoods Unintentionally: Public Housing Residualization and Socioeconomic Segregation in Hong Kong Theme 3: Housing Policy and Urban Renewal 7. Speculative self-destruction, gateways for hyper-redevelopment in Seoul, South Korea 8. Unravelling Redevelopment in the Megacity context of India: The case of Mumbai Theme 4: How People House Themselves 9. Negotiating Housing in a Heritage city: A Study of Mahayyawa Low-income Settlement in Kandy, Sri Lanka 10. Governing the Housing Market in post-reform China: Price Controls and Regional Inequalities 11. Rental practices in two informal settlements in Hyderabad, India 12. Identification, Materiality and Housing Transformations in Mumbai. Index