TY - BOOK ID - 85584546 TI - Resilient urban regeneration in informal settlements in the tropics : upgrading strategies in Asia and Latin America PY - 2021 SN - 9811373078 981137306X PB - Springer Singapore DB - UniCat KW - Squatter settlements KW - Sustainability. KW - Informal settlements (Squatter settlements) KW - Irregular settlements KW - Settlements, Spontaneous KW - Settlements, Squatter KW - Shack towns KW - Shanty towns KW - Shantytowns KW - Spontaneous settlements KW - Uncontrolled settlements KW - Cities and towns KW - Slums KW - Sustainability science KW - Human ecology KW - Social ecology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85584546 AB - This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth’s tropical region. The book presents a study on regeneration experiences in Asia and Latin America and it identifies important points of connection and similarities between the two cases, while also determining that, compared to Asia, informality in Latin America is in its ‘second generation.’. ER -