Public Management of Urban Land, Enabling Markets and Low-income Housing Provision: The Overlooked Experience of Iran

Keivani, Ramin; Mattingly, Michael; Majedi, Hamid

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“…Criticism of market-enabling approaches to housing deficits continues to gain momentum as critics highlight its failure to adapt to rapid urban growth, high inflation, and the shortage of investment opportunities outside of real estate (Baken & Van der Linden, 1993;Keivani et al, 2008;Keivani & Werna, 2001;Mukhija, 2004). The approach taken to address the housing deficit by the CNTH in Argentina attempts to provide land and enable the creation of selfmanaged housing by low-income groups, effectively bypassing formal housing markets and their inadequacies.…”

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“…With direct conversations between state actors, technical assistance experts, and communities, these groups attempt to produce alternative forms of social housing through participatory design. Precedence and positive examples of the state management and provision of land for housing and other alternative approaches to housing deficits, although scarcely examined, do exist (see Keivani, Mattingly, & Majedi, 2008 for a look at this experience in Iran). Additionally, as discussed in depth by Denaldi (1997), participative, community-managed slum improvement and housing construction programs employing similar models to that of the CNTH existed at a municipal level in Sao Paolo, Brazil from 1989 to 1992, however, neither of which survived neoliberal policy shifts.…”

Section: The National Land Commission For Social Housing: the Social mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Many studies are there to find out the logic behind preference for informal land delivery system. Success stories have been highlighted by Keivani, Mattingly, and Majedi (2008), after conducting research on Iran, Singapore, and Netherlands and Finland. This study mentioned that in Iran success was achieved by arranging house for low income group people.…”

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Triggers of Informal Land Supply Dominance in Nigerian Cities

Adamu¹,

Danladi²

2019

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It is an undeniable fact that virtually all human activities take place on land. Most importantly urban development activities such as housing, which provide shelter for man, all other land uses. The provision of most services for urban development is dependent, first and foremost on the availability of land. For Aluko and Moss (2002), access to land is a major problem. Every developing city is facing this problem due to population explosion. Another reason is urbanization which demands a lot of lands. Provision of urban land is under government's sole authority in Nigeria with negligible responsibility from state. Numerous numbers of studies have mentioned that like Nigeria many countries' land delivery system face a failure. Failure of formal channel increases demand for informal. As a result, for vertical and horizontal growth is taking place. For urban economy major constraint is lack of access to land. Access to building land has been identified as a serious problem as per the Presidential Committee on Urban Development and Housing, [2002]. Being the gateway city, Karu has suffered from the pressure of globalization, urbanization. Land markets come with many types of risks like, duration security, informal rights, inadequate compensation etc. According to Kwame and Antwi (2004), double sale is another major problem. Tema, Accra and Kumasi are the most sufferers for this problem. Rakodi and Leduka (2005), highlighted insecure tenure rights and property delineations are some of the other challenges. Instead of this urban families still looking for informal transfer and acquire of rights. Sometimes urban household are showing interest for formal land markets. This study focuses on the logic for finding substitute origin for residential land in Nigeria. 1.1. What is Informal Land Delivery? "Informal" is used to express a wide range of operations vary situation and context wise. It is also known as "neocustomary", "quasi-customary", "living law" etc. UN-Habitat (2010). The term informal urban land delivery system is used to talk about a variety of urban land transactions, exchanges and transfers that are not recognized by the state as legal, but which are nevertheless socially acceptable as legitimate by a variety of urban actors. Antwi (2002), defined informal land deliver as transactions in land outside the government legal system for which the necessary government proscriptions for

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“…1 Research shows that, in the past fifty years in Iran, both government and private sectors have focused their maximum attention on issues of low-income/affordable housing (Keivani et al 2008;Ziari 2009;Sheykhi 2007;Ziari 2006;Keivani et al 2005;Moatazed-Keivani 1993;Zandi 1985;& Khavidi 1978). Yet, Contemporary architectural design should aim at creating innovative and adaptable houses that every Tehrani can have access to.…”

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The Opportunistic House for Tehran: A Design Prototype

Khorshidifard¹

2015

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This article is an advocacy research for Tehran, promoting an implication of architectural design as a tool for citizen empowerment and positive environmental change. In the article, I am offering a fresh look at Tehran’s housing problems by speculating an “opportunistic house” typology as a residential style that would serve much more than just shelter. I am making a case for a new house prototype that applies socially-equitable solutions in design. My study finds applications and significance beyond plain housing design and, mainly, onto the design of ad hoc urban public realm spaces. This is in accord with my overarching mission of supporting new way of thinking about, and ultimately offering, welcoming, safe, and energized places for Tehran’s citizens. These will additionally have important implications for inhospitable public spaces worldwide. This research is grounded in my prior, multidisciplinary doctoral studies. The article itself is an initial step in my ongoing research design, of helping to build and revitalize a wide range of urban communities by nurturing their relationship to their built and natural environments. The article is a discussion around the following questions. How can housing design inventions empower citizens? In what manner can design offer progressive living place options whose services go beyond shelter needs? Particularly, in what ways can domestic spaces be designed to also embody other-than-living capacities, for example, for new kinds of public spaces? And eventually, what could a prototype of the opportunistic house look like in the context of a city like Tehran? The article is structured to first present a brief survey of how Tehran house forms and functions have developed historically, with more emphasis on their current state. It will then offer examples of opportunistic uses of domestic spaces in Tehran. This notion is communicated through narrative analysis and photographic vignettes from a few Iranian films. Through the selection, I show, for example, how and where informal economies are shaping inside Tehran apartments. Next, the article will identify possibilities and spaces in current houses that are and have the potentials to be used in resourceful ways. Based on the steps indicated, analyzing people needs and artifact interpretations, I will conclude with a design proposal of a new infill apartment house. The final proposal will include theoretical statements about possible design interventions and a visual prototypical elaboration through imageries and conceptual renderings. The resultant prototype becomes one example of possible houses that could serve as catalysts for informative, inspiring, and state- of-the-art practices, a precedent in Tehran for others to build upon.

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Public Management of Urban Land, Enabling Markets and Low-income Housing Provision: The Overlooked Experience of Iran

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

State-community collaborative strategies to enable the right to the city in Argentina

State-community collaborative strategies to enable the right to the city in Argentina

Triggers of Informal Land Supply Dominance in Nigerian Cities

The Opportunistic House for Tehran: A Design Prototype

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