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  1. Informal Settlement Upgrading and the Rise of Rental Housing in São Paulo, Brazil

    Article • Journal of Planning Education and Research, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  2. Learning from Latin America’s Informal Sector

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  3. The intersection between the dwelling environment and health and wellbeing in impoverished rural Puebla, Mexico

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  4. “Slumification” of Consolidated Informal Settlements: A Largely Unseen Challenge

    Article • Current Urban Studies, January 2021, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  5. A Structural Equation Model to Decipher Relationships among Water, Sanitation, and Health in Colonias-Type Unincorporated Communities

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, December 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  6. Renting and Sharing in Low-Income Informal Settlements: Lacunae in Research and Policy Challenges

    Article • Current Urban Studies, January 2020, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  7. Self‐Help Housing

    Article • April 2019, Wiley

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  8. Autogestão in an era of mass social housing: the case of Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida-Entidades Programme

    Article • International Journal of Housing Policy, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  9. Latin America’s Future Public Policy Challenges: A Ten‐year Time Horizon

    Article • Latin American Policy, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  10. Perceived versus actual water quality: Community studies in rural Oaxaca, Mexico

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  11. Housing, Health, and Ageing in Texas <em>Colonias</em> and Informal Subdivisions

    Article • Current Urban Studies, January 2018, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  12. Model subdivisions: The new face of developer lot sales for low-income colonia-type housing in Texas

    Article • Land Use Policy, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  13. Protecting Homebuyers in Low‐Income Communities: Evaluating the Success of Texas Legislative Reforms in the Informal Homeownership Market

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  14. Housing rehab for consolidated informal settlements: A new policy agenda for 2016 UN-Habitat III

    Article • Habitat International, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  15. Colonia Housing Conditions in Model Subdivisions: A Déjà Vu for Policy Makers

    Article • Housing Policy Debate, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  16. Lot vacancy and property abandonment: colonias and informal subdivisions in Texas

    Article • International Journal of Housing Policy, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  17. Texas Self-Help Informal Settlement and Colonia Housing Conditions, Aging, and Health Status

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  18. Intensive Case Study Methodology for the Analysis of Self-Help Housing Consolidation, Household Organization and Family Mobility

    Article • Current Urban Studies, January 2014, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr Peter M. Ward, Professor Edith Rosario Jimenez Huerta

  19. Measuring self-help home improvements in Texas colonias: A ten year ‘snapshot’ study

    Article • Urban Studies, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  20. “A Patrimony for the Children”: Low-Income Homeownership and Housing (Im)Mobility in Latin American Cities

    Article • Annals of the Association of American Geographers, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  21. Sustainable housing applications and policies for low-income self-build and housing rehab

    Article • Habitat International, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  22. Urban Regeneration in Latin America

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  23. Inheritance and Succession in Informal Settlements of Latin American Cities: A Mexican Case Study

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2012, Project Muse

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  24. Overview

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  25. Housing Policies in Developing Countries

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  26. Self-help housing policies for second generation inheritance and succession of “The House that Mum & Dad Built”

    Article • Habitat International, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  27. El Título en la Mano: The Impact of Titling Programs on Low‐Income Housing in Texas Colonias

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  28. Decentralization, democracy and sub-national governance: comparative reflections for policy-making in Brazil, Mexico and the US

    Article • Regional Science Policy & Practice, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  29. Self-help housing and informal homesteading in peri-urban America: Settlement identification using digital imagery and GIS

    Article • Habitat International, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  30. This Extended Edition, Manuscript Submissions and Acceptances Report for 2004, and Larr 's "Impact Factor"

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2005, Project Muse

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  31. 'Colonia' Land and Housing Market Performance and the Impact of Lot Title Regularisation in Texas

    Article • Urban Studies, December 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  32. Editor's Foreword

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2004, Project Muse

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  33. From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty" of Today: A LARR Research Forum: Introduction and Overview: Marginality Then and Now

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2004, Project Muse

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  34. Methodology For Land And Housing Market Analysis

    Article • December 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  35. Globalization, regional development, and mega-city expansion in Latin America: Analyzing Mexico City’s peri-urban hinterland

    Article • Cities, February 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  36. Editor's Foreword

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2003, Project Muse

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  37. Editor's Foreword

    Article • Latin American Research Review, January 2003, Project Muse

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  38. Government and Democracy in Mexico’s Federal District, 1997–2001: Cárdenas, the PRD and the Curate’s Egg

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, January 2002, Wiley

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  39. Tracking land ownership in self-help homestead subdivisions in the United States: the case of Texas “colonias”

    Article • Land Use Policy, April 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  40. Absentee lot owners in Texas colonias: who are they, and what do they want?

    Article • Habitat International, September 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  41. From Machine Politics to the Politics of Technocracy: Charting Changes in Governance in the Mexican Municipality1

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, September 1998, Wiley

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  42. Future livelihoods in Mexico City: A glimpse into the new millennium

    Article • Cities, April 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  43. To reply or not to reply: our dilemma about Pugh

    Article • Land Use Policy, April 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  44. The blind men and the elephant: A critic's reply

    Article • Habitat International, January 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  45. The World Bank's ‘new’ urban management programme: Paradigm shift or policy continuity?

    Article • Habitat International, January 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  46. Disentangling the PRI from the Government in Mexico

    Article • Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, January 1994, University of California Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  47. Residential Land Price Changes in Mexican Cities and the Affordability of Land for Low-income Groups

    Article • Urban Studies, November 1993, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  48. Social Welfare Policy and Political Opening in Mexico

    Article • Journal of Latin American Studies, October 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  49. The Latin American Inner City: Differences of Degree or of Kind?

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, August 1993, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  50. Articulation Theory and Self-Help Housing Practice in the 1990s

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, March 1992, Wiley

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  51. Book Review: Third World Housing in Social and Spatial Development

    Article • Urban Studies, February 1992, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  52. Opposition Politics, Power and Public Administration in Urban Mexico

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, January 1991, JSTOR

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  53. Land Values and Valorisation Processes in Latin American Cities: A Research Agenda

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, January 1989, JSTOR

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  54. Family Structure and Low-Income Housing Policy

    Article • Third World Planning Review, February 1987, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  55. Community leadership and self-help housing

    Article • Progress in Planning, January 1987, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  56. Reproduction of social inequality: access to health services in Mexico City

    Article • Health Policy and Planning, January 1987, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  57. Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities

    Article • Man, September 1986, JSTOR

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  58. The Politics of Planning in Mexico

    Article • Third World Planning Review, August 1986, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  59. Housing, the State, and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, January 1986, JSTOR

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  60. Urban Renovation and the Impact Upon Low Income Families in Mexico City

    Article • Urban Studies, June 1985, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  61. Housing, the State and the Poor

    Article • January 1985, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  62. Community action by the urban poor: Democratic involvement, community self-help or a means of social control?

    Article • World Development, August 1984, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  63. Residential Movement among the Poor: The Constraints on Housing Choice in Latin American Cities

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, January 1982, JSTOR

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  64. Public Intervention, Housing and Land Use in Latin American Cities

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, October 1981, JSTOR

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  65. Political Pressure for Urban Services: The Response of Two Mexico City Administrations

    Article • Development and Change, July 1981, Wiley

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  66. Financing Land Acquisition for Self-Build Housing Schemes

    Article • Third World Planning Review, February 1981, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  67. Self-Help Housing in Mexico City:Social and Economic Determinants of Success

    Article • Town Planning Review, January 1978, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  68. Social interaction patterns in squatter settlements in Mexico city

    Article • Geoforum, January 1978, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  69. The Squatter Settlement as Slum or Housing Solution: Evidence from Mexico City

    Article • Land Economics, August 1976, University of Wisconsin Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  70. Intra-city migration to squatter settlements in Mexico City

    Article • Geoforum, January 1976, Elsevier

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  71. Introduction: the research issues and strategy

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  72. Access to land

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  73. Servicing low-income settlements

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  74. Community organization: participation or social control?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  75. Conclusions

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  76. The methodology in detail

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  77. Description of the survey settlements

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  78. Bogotá, Mexico City and Valencia: the social, economic and political backcloth

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  79. Notes

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  80. Bibliography

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  81. Mexico City in an era of globalization and demographic downturn

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  82. CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Peter M. Ward

  83. Colonias, Informal Homestead Subdivisions, and Self-Help Care for the Elderly Among Mexican Populations in the United States

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Peter M. Ward