This paper applies a conceptual framework of “governance failure” to an analysis of the
institutional dimensions of urban water supply provision to poor households, focusing on the …

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia,
and how people navigate dispossession​ The old aphorism" possession is nine-tenths of …

Indonesia's formal housing policies—self-help housing, public housing, and cross-
subsidization—have not adequately addressed housing provision for the urban poor. Most …

In Jakarta, the majority of the poor provide their own shelter in spontaneous informal
settlements. Such informal settlements are often formed without land titles. Land and …

This essay shows that irregular settlements (known as kampung) are constitutive parts of
urban development in Jakarta as well as in the city's extended peri-urban areas. It argues …

This article examines urban planning on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique, where
governance constitutes an ambiguous realm whose imagined opportunities are as enticing …

This article discusses the relations between unauthorised settlements and regulation in the
Global South. It starts from the concept of “nomotropism”, by which is meant “acting in light of …

Our knowledge of the governance of cities has expanded in recent years with the application
of Foucauldian approaches. However, the majority of such work has concentrated on areas …

Standard urban economic theory suggests that stringent urban land-use regulation leads to
higher housing prices due to both direct impacts on costs and a reduction in the price …

Government institutions and local people in Indonesia have entrenched, resurrected, and
reinvented space through their different territorial and property claims. From colonial times …