Full Description
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focusing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions with state apparatus specifically located within the urban space. The book adopts a praxeological approach to law that describes how inhabitants define and exercise their legality in practice and daily routines. The ambition of the volume is to restore the continuum in the consolidation, building after building, of the popular neighborhoods of the cities under study, while demonstrating the closely-knit social relationships and other forms of community bonding.
Contents
Forms and Norms: Questioning Illegal Urban Housing in the Middle East
Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret, and Eric Denis
The Production of Forms and Norms from Within
Mukhalafat in Damascus: The Form of an Informal Settlement
Etienne Léna
Selling One's Property in an Informal Settlement: A Praxeological Approach to a Syrian Case Study
Baudouin Dupret and Myriam Ferrier
Securing Property in Informal Neighborhoods in Damascus through Tax Payments
Myriam Ferrier
Inhabitants' Daily Practices to Obtain Legal Status for Their Homes and Security of Tenure: Egypt
Marion Séjourné
Vertical versus Horizontal: Constraints of Modern Living Conditions in Informal Settlements and the Reality of Construction
Franziska Laue
The Politics of Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut (1853-2008)
Ward Vloeberghs
Shared Social and Juridical Meanings as Observed in an Aleppo 'Marginal' Neighborhood
Zouhair Ghazzal
Public Policies toward Informal Settlements: From Eviction to Self-help Recognition (or Legitimization) and Back
Secure Land Tenure? Stakes and Contradictions of Land Titling and Upgrading Policies in the Global Middle East and Egypt
Agnès Deboulet
The Commodification of the Ashwa'iyyat: Urban Land, Housing Market Unification, and de Soto's Interventions in Egypt
Eric Denis
Public Policies toward Informal Settlements in Jordan (1965-2010)
Myriam Ababsa
Mülk Allahindir ('This House is God's Property'): Legitimizing Land Ownership in the Suburbs of Istanbul
Jean-François Pérouse
Law, Rights, and Justice in Informal Settlements: The Crossed Frames of Reference of Town Planning in a Large Urban Development Project in Beirut
Valérie Clerc
The Coastal Settlements of Ouzaii and Jnah: Analysis of an Upgrading Project in Beirut
Falk Jähnigen
