First published in 1987, Shelter, Settlement & Development presents a comprehensive reappraisal of shelter, settlement and development policies and programs in third world countries. Written by distinguished contributors, it introduces new ideas on many themes such as spatial strategies, land policy, shanty town settlements etc.

New Preface Foreword Preface I. Overview 1. Shelter, settlement, and development: an overview II. Shelter Issues 2. Economic impact and implications of shelter investments 3. Household preferences and expenditure 4. The construction industry 5. Land Policy 6. Infrastructure standards 7. Housing finance institutions 8. Financing Shelter III. Settlement Issues 9. Spatial strategies, the settlement pattern, and shelter and services policies 10. Metropolitan settlement strategies IV: Rethinking Policy, Implementation and Management 11. Shelter, development, and the poor 12. Criteria for future shelter and settlement policies in developing countries 13. The legal and the illegal city 14. New Directions for national shelter policies 15. Institutional learning in shelter and settlement policies Appendices Statistical Appendix A: Trends in the growth and spatial distribution of population Appendix B: A note on US experience on security of tenure and shelter Notes Acknowledgements Notes on contributors List of tables List of figures Index