Part 1: Changing Contexts and the Role of the State in Housing Provision;
I. Housing Policies in Recent Brazil Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques;
II. Towards a More Humane Urbanism: Low-Income Housing in Urban India Annapurna Shaw;
III. The Kruschyovka Kalashnikov Sourav Hazra and Ekaterina Norkina;
IV. (De) Embracing ‘Enabling’ Housing Strategies? Evidence from Southern Countries Urmi Sengupta ;
Part 2:  Redevelopment of Slums;
V. Brazilian Favelas: Two Decades of Public Policies Camila D’Ottaviano;
VI. Settlement in a ‘Smartening City’ Amita Bhide ;
VII. Urban-Poor Housing Development in Asia: From Target Group to Negotiating Partner Somsook Boonyabancha and Thomas Andrew Kerr;
Part 3:  Informal Housing and Right to the City VIII. The Politics of Poverty and Property in Indian Metros: The Case of Kathputli Colony in New Delhi Bhuvaneswari Raman;
IX. Approaches to Informal Settlements and Livelihood-building Processes in Durban Tara Saharan;
X. For a Pedagogy of Co-existence in the Polis 243 Fernando Lannes Fernandes, Jailson de Souza e Silva, Jorge Luiz Barbosa, Eliana Sousa Silva and Tatiana Moura Part 4: Environmental Re(Configurations) of Urban Infrastructure, Housing and Livelihoods;
XI. The BRICS New Development Bank’s False Dawn: Unsustainable Urban Infrastructure Finance in South Africa Patrick Bond XII. Location, Livelihoods and Environment in Contemporary Delhi Awadhendra Sharan;
XIII. The Role of Small Towns in Mediating Rapid Urbanisation: Insights from Northeast China Yanhong Ma and Xi Chen;
XIV. Class and Tenancy Relations in Calcutta, 1914–1926 Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay and Ujaan Ghosh;