Self-help housing, the poor, and the state in the Caribbean / edited by Robert B. Potter and Dennis Conway.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Potter, Robert B.
Conway, Dennis, 1941-
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : Jamaica : University of Tennessee Press ; The Press, University of the West Indies, [1997], ©1997.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xiv, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Caribbean housing, the state, and self-help : an overview / Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter
  • Houses in the Caribbean : homes and heritage / Brian J. Hudson
  • Housing conditions, vernacular architecture, and state policy in Barbados / Mark R. Watson and Robert B. Potter
  • Housing and the state in the eastern Caribbean / Robert B. Potter
  • Self-help housing in Jamaica / L. Alan Eyre
  • Obstacles to low-income housing assistance in the capitalist periphery : the case of Jamaica / Thomas Klak
  • From cooperative socialism to a social housing policy? : declines and revivals in housing policy in Guyana / Linda Peake
  • A critical review of state involvement in housing in Trinidad and Tobago / Linda Hewitt
  • Self-help housing strategies in Cuba : an alternative to conventional wisdom? / Kosta Mathéy
  • From the bohío to the caserío : urban housing conditions in Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany
  • Housing and the state in the French Caribbean / Stephanie A. Condon and Philip E. Ogden
  • Caribbean housing futures : building communities for sustainability / Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter.