Policy Press The Self-Build Experience: Institutionalisation, Place-Making and City Building (Urban Policy, Planning and the Built Environment)

Spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, this book investigates the phenomenon of self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas. It explores the tension between governance and self-regulation, considering how this relationship can be remodelled and optimised to create more socially sustainable forms of urbanisation. It argues for a rethinking of governance and the moral and managerial ownership of the city.  Review “The book refreshingly treats self-construction as a right to the city. As many of the chapters show, this practice, which emerges 'from below', has become an integral, often institutionalized, part of the urban self-regulation process.” Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. “Provides a powerful interrogation of the role of low-income residents in the articulation of their own livelihoods, claiming their rights and transforming policies at the political level.” Raquel Rolnik, University of São Paulo About the Author Willem Salet is professor emeritus Urban and Regional Planning, at the department of Planning, Geography and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam. He chaired Urban Planning from 1998 to 2017. He was the Scientific Director of the Amsterdam study center for the Metropolitan Environment AME (2008-2013). He was the President of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 2008-2010 and was awarded AESOP Honorary Membership in 2016. As a sociologist and urban planner, Willem Salet specializes in the institutional aspects of metropolitan development. Institutions are conceived in sociological sense as the patterning of public norms. He investigates the cultural, legal and political dimensions of public norms in the making of sustainable metropolitan spaces. Camila L. D’Ottaviano is an architect, urban planner and faculty member in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo. Stan Majoor is Professor of Urban Management at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Daniël Bossuyt is a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam.