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Doorway to the world
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Ronald Kidd |
Ben is unhappy at the prospect of leaving his home and friends and moving to another country, until a dream helps him realize the importance of the work he and his parents will be doing for Habitat f… |
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Raw life, new hope
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Fiona C. Ross |
vi, 248 pages : 23 cm |
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Living in India's slums
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H. Schenk |
Contributed articles. |
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If I had a hammer
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David Rubel |
For a quarter-century in over ninety countries, Habitat for Humanity has built homes with and for the people who need them, aided by more than a million multigenerational volunteers. Two of the most … |
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Afrique du Sud, partage du logement et droit de cité
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Antoine Bouillon |
Migrants et réfugiés étrangers affluent par milliers dans la métropole sud-africaine de Durban. L'auteur nous invite à observer comment, dans cette compétition pour la ville et dans un contexte d'int… |
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Fictions of the city
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Matthew Taunton |
"Many studies of fictions of city life take the flneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris f… |
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High-risers
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Ben Austen |
Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an … |
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Low-income homeownership
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Nicolas Paul Retsinas,Eric S. Belsky |
Annotation A generation ago little attention was focused on low-income homeownership. Today homeownership rates among under-served groups, including low-income households and minorities, have risen t… |
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Shelter for poor in the fourth world
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R. G. Gupta |
Study relates to eight Asian countries, with particular reference to case study of Delhi, India. |
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Reclaiming Public Housing
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Lawrence J. Vale |
"In Reclaiming Public Housing, Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-inc… |
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The president builds a house
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Tom Shachtman |
A photo essay depicts the non-profit organization of volunteers that renovate or build houses for needy families as, with former President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter's participation as volunteers, they bu… |
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Urban squatter housing in Third World
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Ashok Ranjan Basu |
Study with special reference to Delhi. |
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Housing finance and the urban poor
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Peer Smets |
Study conducted in Hyderabad, India. |
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Homes for People
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Carl Chinn |
192p. : 24 |
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