Living on the Margins: Social Access to Shelter in Urban South Asia

This title was first published in 2000. Drawing upon the studies of South Asia and other Third World contexts, as well as original in-depth empirical research from Amritsar, a city in North West India, this book examines the social and economic structures which define the marginal position occupied by poor communities in a South Asian city. It develops and applies a unique model to analyze the routes to shelter access for the urban poor and draws conclusions about long-term ideological implications and the impact of self-help and planned intervention have had on poor communities.