New Communities for Urban Squatters: Lessons from the Plan That Failed in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This is a book on the interrelatedness of planning and implementation, on how policymakers and planners can be more effective in solving problems of providing new homes and settlements for urban squatters in developing countries. It treats a subject which in this year of publication, The United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Home­ less, has attracted global interest and concern. New Communities for Urban Squatters helps us to understand the ways in which the planning process ...