Speculative settlements
Raharjo, Wiryono
Over one billion people in the world today live in slums. This UN estimation suggests that slums continue to be part of the global production of the built environment, regardless of the countless efforts to eradicate them. Slums, squatters' settlements, and informal settlements are words frequently used interchangeably to describe a 'non-state' approach to settlements development, which characterises the contemporary urban Third World. The urb...