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The European Journal of Development Research | 1997

Opportunities and insecurities: Globalisation, localities and the struggle for urban land in Manila

Erhard Berner

Globalisation is a contradictory process: integration on a global scale is connected to processes of fragmentation within world cities. The juxtaposition of global and local, rich and poor, skyscrapers and squatter shacks is characteristic of Manila as of every other metropolis. Based on an empirical study of squatter areas, the research found that everyday life in the locality is the major basis for the emergence of organised groups. Local associations form alliances with NGOs, mobilise the support of the media and church, and force politicians and land developers to take their existence into consideration. The paramount goal of squatter organisations is habitat defence and security of tenure. Despite many setbacks, they have made considerable progress in recent years.


International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home | 2012

Informal Housing: Asia

Erhard Berner

Informal housing provides shelter for the majority of the world’s urban populations and rural–urban migrants in particular. In Asia and elsewhere, formal commercial markets have comprehensively and systematically failed to accommodate low-income groups while governments almost completely retreated from housing provision. Cases from India and China show comparable outcomes in highly diverse political environments and a prevalent absence of appropriate policy responses. In conclusion it is argued that only an integration of informal settlements into mainstream urban development can lead to inclusive and liveable cities.


PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur | 2016

„Zur Wohnungsfrage“ im 21. Jahrhundert: Marktversagen, hilflose Politik und die globale Ausbreitung von Slums

Erhard Berner

Zusammenfassung In den grosen Stadten der Dritten Welt hat nur eine privilegierte Minderheit der Bevolkerung uber den kommerziellen Markt Zugang zu Land und Wohnung. Daher schiesen „irregulare“ Siedlungen wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Doch sie sind gepragt durch Mangel und Unsicherheit. Der Artikel zeigt, dass das Versagen des formellen Marktes systematisch und strukturell bedingt ist. Daher greifen Versuche, ihn fur die Armen zu offnen, zu kurz und konnen seine inharenten Begrenzungen nicht uberwinden. Um die sich vergrosernde Kluft zwischen abgegrenzten Gemeinschaften und Ghettos zu verringern, mussen die Interventionen der Verwaltungen den enabling approach wiederentdecken und kluger als die gegenwartige Mischung aus fahrlassiger Toleranz, brutaler Vertreibung, marktradikaler Privatisierung und populistischer Vergabe von Rechtstiteln werden. Schlagworter: Stadtische Armut, Wohnungsmarkt-Versagen, Informeller Wohnungsbau, Slumsanierung, Gentrifizierung ----- ‘The Housing Question’ in the 21st Century: Market Failure, Hapless Policies and the Global Proliferation of Slums Abstract In large cities in the developing world, only a privileged minority of the population has access to land and housing through the commercial market. Mushrooming ‘irregular’ settlements are filling the gap but are beset by deficiencies and insecurity. This article argues that the failure of formal markets is systemic and structural, and that attempts to open them up to the poor have fallen short of overcoming these inherent limitations. In order to mitigate the widening gap between gated communities and ghettos, government intervention needs to rediscover the ‘enabling approach’ and become much smarter than the present mix of negligent tolerance, brutal eviction, market-fundamentalist privatisation, and populist titling. Keywords: urban poverty, housing market failure, informal housing, slum upgrading, gentrification ----- Bibliographie: Berner, Erhard: „Zur Wohnungsfrage“ im 21. Jahrhundert: Marktversagen, hilflose Politik und die globale Ausbreitung von Slums, PERIPHERIE, 1-2016, S. 10-31. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v36i141.22863


Archive | 2016

Un-fassbare Armut

Erhard Berner

Die Messung von Armut ist fur staatliche Sozialpolitik von grundlegender Bedeutung, da sie zur Bestimmung der Zielgruppen sozialer Fursorge- und Sicherungspolitiken unerlasslich scheint. Allerdings bleiben die Adaquanz der zugrundeliegenden Definitionen und die Gultigkeit der angewendeten Verfahren auserst umstritten. In der sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskussion werden monetare Armuts-Grenzwerte seit langem als reduktionistisch kritisiert, und es wird vorgeschlagen, sie durch multidimensionale, dynamische und partizipative Ansatze zu erganzen oder ganz zu ersetzen. Das Entwicklungsprogramm der Vereinten Nationen nahm diese Kritik auf und verfolgt ein ganzheitliches „Human-Armuts“-Paradigma, dass Armut als Folge einer Verweigerung von Verwirklichungschancen fasst. In der offentlichen Diskussion ebenso wie der praktischen Entwicklungspolitik dominiert dagegen weiterhin der Armuts-Grenzwert von einem US-Dollar (Kaufkraft-Paritat) pro Person und Tag, den die Weltbank 1990 festlegte und 2005 auf 1,25 Dollar erhohte. Aus unterschiedlichen Definitionen ergeben sich verschiedene Strategien und Zielgruppen der Armutsbekampfung.


Archive | 2016

Housing Disablement: Market Failures, Haphazard Policies and the Global Proliferation of Slums

Erhard Berner

A few years ago, humankind crossed a significant watershed: for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population are now living in urban areas. Cities, particularly those in developing countries, have absorbed almost all of the population growth of the last decades and will continue to do so. Most newcomers end up in overcrowded, underserviced, smelly and noisy informal settlements, often in hazardous locations, exploited by slumlords, and harassed and often brutally evicted by the police. The MDG target of ‘significant improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by 2020’ has sounded ambitious, but implies, even in the case of success, an increase in the number of residents of unimproved slums by 400 million to 1.4 billion. Since then, it has been carelessly mixed up with the Cities Alliance’s slogan ‘cities without slums’ and abused to justify the eradication of the informal settlements of the poor (Huchzermeyer 2011: 1).


The European Journal of Development Research | 2012

‘Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor’: The Logic of Survival Entrepreneurs

Erhard Berner; Georgina M. Gómez; Peter Knorringa


Community Development Journal | 2005

Left to their own devices? Community self-help between alternative development and neo-liberalism

Erhard Berner; Benedict Phillips


Development and Change | 2009

Progressive Patronage? Municipalities, NGOs, CBOs and the Limits to Slum Dwellers’ Empowerment

Joop de Wit; Erhard Berner


Development in Practice | 2001

Learning from informal markets: innovative approaches to land and housing provision

Erhard Berner


International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 1995

Globalization and Local Resistance: The Creation of Localities in Manila and Bangkok*

Erhard Berner; Rüdiger Korff

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