Information programme on the role of non-governmental organisations and community based groups active in human settlements projects in Asia.
Contributors: Ahmedabad Study Action Group.; United Nations Centre for Human Settlements.
Publisher: Ahmedabad Study Action Group, supported by UNCHS (Habitat), United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Ahmedabad, India
Language: eng
Subjects: Low-income housing -- Asia.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"IYSH-1987; International Year of Shelter for the Homeless."
Selected studies on the human settlements in Asian countries.
Table of contents: title: Land sharing as an alternative to eviction, the Bangkok experience; title: Group-based savings and credit for the rural poor : Grameen Bank, Bangladesh; title: Life in a troubled sea : the boat people issue, Hong Kong; title: The homeless build : relocation of the people of Kampung Sawah by and for themselves, West Jakarta, Indonesia; title: Kottikewela Housing Project in Amparai District and Mahawatte Housing Programme in Colombo, Sri Lanka; title: Nothing is impossible : Pagtambayayong Foundation, Cebu City, Philippines; title: The Samkeetam New Self-Help Community Project, Bangkok, Thailand; title: Housing for the homeless in Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia; title: Bogum Jahri, the homeless resist eviction, Seoul, South Korea.