Editor's Introduction: Reshaping Local Democracy
1. Negotiating the right to stay in the city - ACHR
2. Participatory budgeting: a significant contribution to participatory democracy
3. Community federations and city upgrading: the work of Pamoja Trust and Muungano in Kenya
4. Costa Rica's Triangle of Solidariy: Can Government-led Spaces for negotiation enhance the involvment of civil society in governance:
5. The Politics of engagement : gains and challenges of the NGO coalition in Ceby City
6. Providing environmental urban services to the poor in Andhra Pradesh: developing strategic decision -making
7. Establishing the role of communities in governance: the experience of the Homeless People's Federation Philippines
8. Power to the People? Local governance and politics in Vietnam
9. Housing mobilization in Calcutta - empowerment for the masses or awareness for the few?
10. Housing Poverty and the role of urban governance in Korea
11. Strengthening accountability for urban services
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1. A Market-based housing improvement system for low-income families - the Housing Incentive System (SIV) in Ecuador
2. Local empowerment through community mapping for water sanitation in Dar es Salaam.
3. An attempt to empower Jamaican squatters
4. Migration to and from Mexico City, 1995-2000
Book Notes
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