Böcker av Alan Gilbert

Originally published in 1985, this book is concerned with the housing and service needs of the poor in Latin America and how they are articulated and satisfied. The main theme of this book is thus the allocation of resources within urban society and the operation of political and administrative power at city level.

Utilizes survey data and interviews to compile a detailed picture of rental housing in Latin America. The study examines why tenants live in rental housing, under what circumstances they move to home ownership, and how and why the state intervenes in the landlord-tenant relationship.

The parallels between scientific and moral realism are drawn to reinterpret the history and internal logic of democratic theory and present a powerful argument 1n favor of the objectivity of democratic individuality.