Self-help housing, the poor, and the state in the Caribbean
By: edited by Robert B. Potter and Dennis Conway.
Contributors: Potter, Robert B.; Conway, Dennis, 1941-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; The Press University of the West Indies
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Knoxville; Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Low-income housing -- Caribbean Area.; Self-help housing -- Caribbean Area.; Housing policy -- Caribbean Area.
Notes: Abstracts also in French and Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Caribbean housing, the state, and self-help : an overview / Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter; title: Houses in the Caribbean : homes and heritage / Brian J. Hudson; title: Housing conditions, vernacular architecture, and state policy in Barbados / Mark R. Watson and Robert B. Potter; title: Housing and the state in the eastern Caribbean / Robert B. Potter; title: Self-help housing in Jamaica / L. Alan Eyre; title: Obstacles to low-income housing assistance in the capitalist periphery : the case of Jamaica / Thomas Klak; title: From cooperative socialism to a social housing policy? : declines and revivals in housing policy in Guyana / Linda Peake; title: A critical review of state involvement in housing in Trinidad and Tobago / Linda Hewitt; title: Self-help housing strategies in Cuba : an alternative to conventional wisdom? / Kosta Mathéy; title: From the bohío to the caserío : urban housing conditions in Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany; title: Housing and the state in the French Caribbean / Stephanie A. Condon and Philip E. Ogden; title: Caribbean housing futures : building communities for sustainability / Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter.