Download or read book Community Participation and Slum Housing written by Vandana Desai and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1995-06-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study explores the nature of community participation in a Bombay housing project and analyzes the concepts of influence and power in community participation, focusing on the impact of community mobilization on the process of slum upgrading. The study reveals that despite community organization and pro-participation rhetoric in official discourse, most slum-dwellers are excluded from decision- making. Of interest to those in sociology and development studies, and voluntary organizations and international agencies. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR