Development and Cities Essays from Development in Practice

Adriana Allen is Director of the Environmental Planning and Management Programme at the Development Planning Unit at University College London, and a visiting professor at several universities in Latin America Adrian Atkinson is associated with the Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London, where he developed courses in urban environment over many years. Currently, he acts as a consultant to various aid agencies, with a focus on South-East Asia Banashree Banerjee is an urban planner and associate staff member of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Rotterdam. She was part of the core team of consultants involved in designing and overseeing the implementation of the programme described in her paper Erhard Berner is a lecturer in Local and Regional Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and has taught at universities in the Philippines, Nepal, and Namibia. Alison Brown is a consultant urban planner and part-time lecturer at the Department of City and Regional Planning of Cardiff University Diego Carrion is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Catholic University of Ecuador and a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD in Quito, Ecuador. He is also chief adviser to the mayor of Quito P. G. Dhar Chakrabarti is a senior Indian Civil Servant. He held the post of Director in the Ministry of Urban Development in the Government of India when this article was written. This article is written in his individual capacity and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of his organisation Karina Constantino-David is Professor of Community Development at the University of the Philippines, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1998 to 1999, and a Philippine NGO leader Deborah Eade is Editor of the international journal Development in Practice and has written widely on development and humanitarian affairs Carlos Garcia Pleyan holds degrees from the universities of Barcelona, Paris, and Havana. From 1970 to 1996 he was a town planner at the Instituto de Planificacion Fisica in Havana. Since 1998 he has been Vice-President of the NGO, Habitat-Cuba Jaime Joseph is a member of Centro Alternativa, an action-research NGO that works in Metropolitan Lima, and is co-ordinator of the school for leaders and research Wilbard Jackson Kombe is a senior lecturer at the University College of Lands and Architectural Studies (UCLAS) in Dar es Salaam Amitabh Kundu is based at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi Carlo Lavalle works at the Space Applications Institute, Strategy and Systems for Space Applications (SSSA) Unit in Italy Darshini Mahadevia teaches courses on housing and environment at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology in Ahmedabad and is currently working on urban poverty issues in India Fernando Murillo is an architect. Having worked the Middle East, Rwanda, and Nicaragua, he is currently Research Project Director in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires Cesare Ottolini is the European representative of Habitat International Coalition (HIC), a founder member of the European Charter for Housing Rights and the Fight Against Exclusion, and president of the Unione Inquilini (Tenants' Union), one of Italy's most prominent associations of tenants and homeless people Geoffrey Payne is a housing and urban development consultant and a specialist on urban land tenure and property rights in developing countries. He is also an External Associate Adviser to the British Council on built environment subjects Helene Riviere d'Arc, a geographer, is Director of Research at the Research and Documentation Centre (CNRS) in Paris, where she focuses on Latin America David Westendorff was a Research Co-ordinator at UNRISD from 1991 until 2001 and is now an independent consultant co-ordinating a series of international comparative research projects on urban governance. He will assume a faculty position at Tsinghwa University, Beijing, China in mid-2002Eade, Deborah is the author of 'Development and Cities Essays from Development in Practice' with ISBN 9780855984656 and ISBN 0855984651.