THE CITIES OF THE POOR: Settlement Planning in Developing Countries.
by Turner, Alan, editor
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a good dust jacket (tears and creasing to upper edge of back cover of dj.) Uncommon./good
- ISBN 10
- 0312139470
- ISBN 13
- 9780312139476
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About This Item
New York:: St Martin's,, (1980). . Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a good dust jacket (tears and creasing to upper edge of back cover of dj.) Uncommon.. First US printing. Intended as a source book for advisors in urban planning in third world countries, this emphasizes the importance of working with the people in the countries themselves, and that the most important resource in solving the housing problems of the poor is often the working power, the ingenuity and the spirit of enterprise of the poor themselves. In addition to the general framework, this focuses on new communties in Venezuala, Colombia, Angola and Malaysia. Illustrated with photographs and many line drawings, charts and graphs. Notes on contributors, index. 313 pp
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- Title
- THE CITIES OF THE POOR: Settlement Planning in Developing Countries.
- Author
- Turner, Alan, editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a good dust jacket (tears and creasing to upper edge of back cover of dj.) Uncommon.
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312139470
- ISBN 13
- 9780312139476
- Publisher
- St Martin's,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1980).
- Keywords
- third world countries,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Economics and Politics;
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