Alan Gilbert
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3628797 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Gilbert |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Gilbert |
| FIRMA | GILBERT A |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 134 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 913 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 134 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Slums and Shanties
Until the twentieth century, the slum was a problem of the Global North. Today, poor quality housing, a lack of services, and frequently overcrowding are confined mainly to the Global South. There the shelter problem is one less of homelessness than of quality – flimsy and unserviced structures house far too many people. Unlike the slums of the North, most of the poor quality shelter in the South has been built by the people themselves. Such self…
Corruption in Urban Latin America
Corruption is a long-standing feature of governance in Latin America. Recently, numerous governments have been caught up in a major bribery scandal operated by a major Brazilian building company. Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, is interesting because, in the 1990s and early 2000s, it introduced new processes aimed at preventing corruption in the allocation of public contracts. These processes clearly failed because, between 2008 and 2010, the ci…
Rental housing
Housing tenure in Latin American cities
Urban governance in the South
There are all too few examples of good urban governance in the ‘South’. One city which improved its performance dramatically after 1992 was Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. It joined the ranks of exemplar cities and its former mayors toured the world advertising this ‘miracle’. Unfortunately, after 2008, the city’s administration became mired in corruption and its image ratings have dived. The current administration has so far failed to revive tr…
Free housing for the poor
Poverty, Inequality, and Social Segregation
How to help, and how not to help, the poor in the megacities of the South
Generalising about urban governance and the urban poor across most of the globe is unhelpful. Unfortunately, I see far too many current examples of that disease. Latin America is not China and is most certainly not like most of Africa or the Indian subcontinent. A recent paper in this journal argued that every city in the South suffers from poor and corrupt management. While accepting that such a diagnosis is true of too many cities, this paper o…
Black Patriots and Loyalists
De Soto's The Mystery of Capital
Faulty Logic
Epilogue
City/Art
Equal rights as the center of democratization
Well-stated modern political or democratic theory is rights-based. Meaningful democracy rests as a precondition on the equal rights of citizens. This idea stems from Rousseau’s distinction between a general will*one which is impersonal and tends toward equality, that is, the equal basic rights of citizens*and a transitory will of all. For instance, absent equal basic rights, one might imagine a possible world in which what I have called a self-un…
The rise (and fall?) of a state land bank
Leo Strauss and the Principles of the Right
Do Philosophers Counsel Tyrants
Viewpoint
Up to one billion tenants may be living in cities across the globe, but most governments continue to ignore them. Insofar as they recognise that tenants exist, the policy is to turn them into home-owners. Even in the UK and US, where this strategy has been underway for some years, it has not managed to reduce the numbers of tenants during the last decade. With the sub-prime crisis, the proportion of tenants is likely to rise. In the rest of the w…
Water for All
Water is critical to improving the health and welfare of the expanding urban populations of the South. Unfortunately, few cities in poor countries have managed to develop institutions able to supply the poor with water, let alone take away the waste. One city that has managed to do so is Bogota, Colombia. The results of this public company are impressive and have been achieved by adopting some elements of neo-liberal economic thought and by maint…
Inequality and Why It Matters
Many think that poverty and inequality in the world are increasing. The article shows that they are both right and wrong. But far too many, even those who worry about the world's poor, do not seem to care that the rich are becoming so much richer. The wealthy are admired and are seen as role models. Apart from the question of fairness, public disinterest in inequality is worrying because inequality blocks progress for the poor. This is important …
The Return of the Slum
The 'cities without slums' initiative has resuscitated an old and dangerous term from the habitat vocabulary. Use of the word 'slum' will recreate many of the myths about poor people that years of careful research have discredited. The UN has employed the word in order to publicize the seriousness of urban problems and to improve its ability to attract funding with which to tackle the issue. But in using such an emotive word the UN risks opening …
La ciudad, la crisis y las salidas
Good Urban Governance
Few cities in Latin America provide much evidence of good governance. However, during the last fifteen years, Bogotá has been transformed and now qualifies in certain respects as an example of 'best practice'. The paper considers how Bogotá changed and whether it can continue its improvement, an especially interesting question insofar as a left-wing administration has been in charge since 2004. Of course, the city is by no means perfect and natio…
Coming to the UK
Received wisdom suggests that asylum-seekers come to the UK because of the generosity of the welfare state and the ease of finding work in the growing informal labour market, because the UK has no identity cards, and because of a fairly poor record on sending home unsuccessful asylum applicants. Based on interviews with 87 asylum-seekers from Afghanistan, Colombia, Kosovo and Somalia, this paper suggests that the realities of asylum-seeking are q…
Housing and land in urban Mexico
The Return of the Slum
The 'cities without slums' initiative has resuscitated an old and dangerous term from the habitat vocabulary. Use of the word 'slum' will recreate many of the myths about poor people that years of careful research have discredited. The UN has employed the word in order to publicize the seriousness of urban problems and to improve its ability to attract funding with which to tackle the issue. But in using such an emotive word the UN risks opening …
On the mystery of capital and the myths of Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto's new bestseller, The Mystery of Capital, attributes the failure of capitalism in the Third World to the lack of property titles. Many governments around the world are following this advice and are busy distributing legal titles to self-help families. Using data gathered in the now legalised self-help settlements of Bogota , the paper questions a number of the alleged benefits of legalisation. It shows how sales are more common w…
Helping the poor through housing subsidies
Pirates and invaders
Housing, the State and the Poor
Residential Movement among the Poor
The paper examines the validity of current theories of intra-city migration, subjecting those theories to the test of explaining new data collected in a total of 13 low-income settlements in three Latin American cities: Bogota, Mexico City, and Valencia, Venezuela. The study focuses attention upon the principal reception points for migrants; the location of previous place of residence for contemporary barrio dwellers; [and] the tenure and dwellin…
The Poor Die Young
The urban context community action to address housing and health problems - the case of San Martin in Buenos Aires, Argentina housing and health in Olaleye-Iponri, a low income settlement in Lagos, Nigeria housing and health in three squatter settlements in Allahabad, India water supply and the urban poor low cost sanitation surface water drainage in urban areas the collection and management of household garbage the role of house design in limiti…
The Tenants of Self-Help Housing
Good Urban Governance
Few cities in Latin America provide much evidence of good governance. However, during the last fifteen years, Bogotá has been transformed and now qualifies in certain respects as an example of 'best practice'. The paper considers how Bogotá changed and whether it can continue its improvement, an especially interesting question insofar as a left-wing administration has been in charge since 2004. Of course, the city is by no means perfect and natio…
Power, Ideology and the Washington Consensus
It is well known that reality is often stranger than fiction. That certainly applies in the case of the housing subsidy model of Chile. Developed by Chileans with the assistance of neo-liberal ideology invented in Chicago, the powerful institutions of Washington DC appear to have been minor actors on the Chilean scene. Initially, Chile needed World Bank support and finance, but once this had been achieved it followed its own agenda. The Inter-Ame…
Development Planning and Spatial Structure
Third World Cities
There is a distinct lack of excitement and novelty in the recent writing on national settlement systems in the Third World. The last three years seem to have produced little
Free housing for the poor
Viewpoint
Up to one billion tenants may be living in cities across the globe, but most governments continue to ignore them. Insofar as they recognise that tenants exist, the policy is to turn them into home-owners. Even in the UK and US, where this strategy has been underway for some years, it has not managed to reduce the numbers of tenants during the last decade. With the sub-prime crisis, the proportion of tenants is likely to rise. In the rest of the w…
Backyard Soweto
Backyard accommodation is widespread in South African cities; a phenomenon that is rare in most other parts of the world. Such a 'solution' is an outcome of past and present policies and this article demonstrates that over the years there have been certain similarities in government policy between Chile and South Africa, the only other country with significant numbers of families living in backyard accommodation. However, Sowetan backyard dweller…
Low-income rental housing
A significant proportion of the black urban population in South Africa rent accommodation. Surveys conducted in two low-income settlements in Cape Town and Johannesburg show that the rental housing scene is in many ways similar to that found in other Third World cities. Landlords are older than their tenants, many are female, their families are larger, their homes have more space and better services. Few landlords make any money and landlord-tena…
Renting a home in a third world city
De Soto's The Mystery of Capital
Community action by the urban poor
Comparing South African and Latin American Experience
Given similar levels of economic development and inequality, it seems strange that more effort has not been made by South Africans to learn from the earlier experience of urbanisation in countries such as Brazil, Chile and Colombia. The paper shows that there are problems in drawing comparisons about migration and residential movement in Latin America and South Africa, but that there are growing signs of similarity. Some of these similarities wer…
Third World Cities
Latin America's urban poor
Third World Cities
Rental housing
The Latin American City
Protestants, Catholics and loyalty
A note on the incidence of development in the vicinity of a growth centre
Gilbert A. (1975) A note on the incidence of development in the vicinity of a growth centre. Reg. Studies 9, 325–333. During the past 10 years the term “growth centre” has gained widespread use in government, academic and planning circles. Currently, however, its utility is being questioned on a number of counts. Principal among these are its conceptual imprecision and its limited ability to accelerate development in poorer regions. The present p…
Latin American Development
The economic development of the Third World since 1900
The Arguments for Very Large Cities Reconsidered
I. Salvaging Marx from Avineri
Latin American Development
The Arguments for Very Large Cities Reconsidered
Violence and the State
Religion and Society in Industrial England
Development Planning and Spatial Structure
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access ALAN D. GILBERT ALAN D. GILBERT University of New South Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue CCCLXVIII, July 1978, Pages 672-b–673, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.CCCLXVIII.672-b Published: 01 July 1978
"On Masters "Communication
Church and Churchgoers
Migration to Small Latin American Cities
Marx's Theory of History
Feuerbach
Methodism, Dissent and Political Stability in Early Industrial England
Churches and Church-Goers
Social Theory and Revolutionary Activity in Marx
Economic determinist attempts to deduce specific political conclusions or strategies from Marx's general theory do not jibe with Marx's own extensive political activity. Instead, Marx's development as a political theorist and organizer passed from observation of (French Revolution, Chartism) or participation in (1848, the International Workingmen's Association) existing radical movements to formulation of new theories and strategies, and then to …
Regional Development Studies
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Churches and Churchgoers
Marx on Internationalism and War
Latin American Studies
Pirates and invaders
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