Chapter 1: Introduction to the Slums; Jean-Claude Bolay
Chapter 2: Chapter 2: The Slum, an Urban Theory; Yves Pedrazzini
Chapter 3: Typology of the Slums; Jérôme Chenal
Chapter 4: Financing Relocation of Households of Karyan Thomas and Douar Skouila within Essalam Operation in Casablanca; Olivier Toutain
Chapter 5: Slums in Ouagadougou; Aude Nikiema
Chapter 6: The Future of the Traditional Habitat in African Cities; Raphaël Chatelet
Chapter 7: Case Study of Kibera/Nairobi, Kenya; Christoph Lüthi
Chapter 8: Despised Territories of Ciudad Bolivar; Yafiza Zorro
Chapter 9: Villa El Salvador: From Urban Self-management Projects to Territorial Marketing Strategies; Diana Burgos-Vigna
Chapter 10: Rocinha, Favela beyond a Shelter Issue
Fernanda Maria Lonardoni
Chapter 11: Caught between Displacement and Permanence: Social Housing Project in Nova Luz; Simone Gatti
Chapter 12: (Re)Urbanization of Villa 31 Carlos Mugica; Javier Fernández Castro
Chapter 13: Detroit: Depopulation, Disinvestment and Blight Induce a Volatile Environment for Housing in a Former Metropolis; Margaret Dewar
Chapter 14: Environmental Circumstances of Informal Settlements in Port-au-Prince after January 12, 2010: Cité de l’Eternel Case Study; Anie Bras, Abigail Kern, Georges Eddy Lucien and Evens Emmanuel
Chapter 15: Dharavi: Where the Urban Design Episteme is Falling Apart; Camillo Boano
Chapter 16: Cambodian Informal Settlements - A Cradle of Competitions for Land, Forced Evictions and Resistance: Boenk Kak Case Study; Valérie Clerc
Chapter 17: Slums in Shanghai; Anouk Matthey Dandrieu
Chapter 18: “PLAN CAÑADA”, a Participative Urban Planning Project for a Slum Area in Madrid, Spain; Todo por la Praxis
Chapter 18: Informal Settlements in Southeast Europe during the Post-Socialist Period; Alexander D. Slaev and Sonia A. Hirt
Chapter 19: From Theory to the Field; Jérôme Chenal
Chapter 6: Conclusion; Jean-Claude Bolay, Jérôme Chenal and Yves Pedrazzini.