Introduction: Self- building as a right to the city - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and Daniël Bossuyt
Part I: The changing decors of governance
The institutionalisation of self-build governance: exemplifying governance relationships in São Paulo/Brazil/Latin America - Camila D’Ottaviano, Suzana Pasternak, Jorge Bassani and Caio Santo Amore
Contested governance of housing for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions: the pivotal role of commissioning - Willem Salet and Daniël Bossuyt
Self-building in contested spaces: livelihoods and productivity challenges of the urban poor in Africa - Nicky Pouw and Marina Humblot
Part II: Changing housing regimes
My House, My Life Programme – Entities: two self-management experiences in the city of São Paulo - Camila D’Ottaviano, Adelcke Rossetto Netto, Cecília Andrade Fiúza, Flávia Massimetti and Juliana do Amaral Costa Lima
The Solano Trindade housing occupation as an urban self-management project in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro - Luciana Corrêa do Lago, Fernanda Petrus and Irene de Queiroz e Mello
Self-management and the production of habitat: a case study of the Alianza Solidaria Housing Cooperative in Quito - Hernán Espinoza Riera, Andrés Cevallos, Bernardo Rosero, Irina Godoy and Janaina Marx
Residents’ experiences and self-build models in Homeruskwartier, Almere - Daniël Bossuyt
Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul - Zeynep Enlil and İclal Dinçer
Experiences of the African city: urban areas in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Adama Belemviré
Implications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions: exemplifying the cases of São Paulo and Amsterdam - Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor, Suzana Pasternak and Willem Salet
From neighbourhood self-organisation to citybuilding: the case of Bathore, Kamëz (Albania) - Ledio Allkja
Conclusion: The normalisation of moral ownership - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and
Daniël Bossuyt