Eugenie L. Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education; Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design; and Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, at the University of Pennsylvania. Susan M. Wachter is the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, The Wharton School; Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Design; and Codirector, Penn Institute for Urban Research, at the University of Pennsylvania. Shahana Chattaraj is a postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Preface
PART I. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1. Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India
—Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter
Chapter 2. Comparative Evidence on Urban Land-Use Regulation Bureaucracy in Developing Countries
—Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi
Chapter 3. Urban Land Titling: Lessons from a Natural Experiment
—Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
PART II. ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 4. The Formalization of Informal Real Estate Transactions in Rio's Favelas
—Janice E. Perlman
Chapter 5. Tenure Regularization Programs in Favelas in Brazil
—Patricia Cezario Silva and Yvonne Mautner
Chapter 6. Property Markets Without Property Rights: Dharavi's Informal Real Estate Market
—Shahana Chattaraj
Chapter 7. Periurban Land Markets in the Bangalore Region
—Sai Balakrishnan
PART III. PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 8. Rehousing Mumbai: Formulizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment
—Vinit Mukhija
Chapter 9. Tenure Regularization: Process and Experiences in Latin America
—José Brakarz
Chapter 10. Making a Difference in the Predominantly Informal City
—David Gouverneur
Chapter 11. Informal Land Markets: Perspectives for Policy
—Bish Sanyal
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index

Eugenie L. Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education; Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, School of Design; and Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, at the University of Pennsylvania. Susan M. Wachter is the Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, The Wharton School; Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Design; and Codirector, Penn Institute for Urban Research, at the University of Pennsylvania. Shahana Chattaraj is a postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.