Rights of way to Brasília Teimosa : the politics of squatter settlement /
Fortin, Charles J.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why Brasília Teimosa? -- Recife's expansion encroaches on public property -- National politics and the overlay of tenure rights -- Federation sabotages fishermen's dream -- Drought and migration : profiteering, prostitution, and government deadlock -- Recife front, United States intervention, and military coup -- Centralized planning and top-down dictates : tourism complex in Brasília Teimosa -- Church action under the cloud of military rule -- Residents council resurgence and police retaliation -- Tenure disputes and the archdiocese's Commission of Justice and Peace -- Jaime Lerner's plan and Projeto Teimosinho -- Mechanisms of conflict resolution : owners, renters, and field office politics -- Campaign of 1982 : land tenure titles as political currency -- Promises broken, trust betrayed -- Afterward.
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Slums
Squatter settlements
Squatter settlements
Land tenure