Public goods versus economic interests : global perspectives on the history of squatting / edited by Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: global perspectives on squatting / Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier -- Crossing hemispheres : beyond historiographical divides -- Squatting, North, South and turnabout : a dialogue comparing illegal housing research / Thomas Aguilera and Alan Smart -- Squatting in the US : what historians can learn from developing countries / Jason Jindrich -- Squatting and encroachment in British colonial history / Robert Home -- Emerging economies : between both worlds -- Squatting and urban modernity in Turkey / Ellinor Morack -- Beyond insurgency and dystopia : the role of informality in Brazil's twentieth-century urban formation / Brodwyn Fischer -- "Right to the city" : squatting, squatters and urban change in Franco's Spain / Inbal Ofer -- Unlicensed housing as resistance to elite projects : squatting in Seoul in the 1960s and 1970s / Erik Mobrand -- Living on the edge : the ambiguities of squatting and urban development in Bucharest / Ioana Florea and Mihail Dumitriu -- Informal settlements in Bangkok : origins, features, growth and prospects / Yap Kioe Sheng with Kittima Leeruttanawisut -- Highly industrialised countries : insecure tenure under conditions of affluence -- "The most fun I've ever had" : squatting in England in the 1970s / John Davis -- Squatting in the Netherlands : the social and political institutionalization of a movement / Hans Pruijt -- Squatting and gentrification in East Germany since 1989/90 / Andrej Holm and Armin Kuhn -- Contributors -- Index.