Global and Regional Governance

pThis chapter reviews the theories and empirical work on the organizational cultures of international organizations.nbsp; We tackle three key tasks: (1) provide a review of how organizational culture is conceptualized in a way amenable to observation and analysis; (2) assess how we can best demonstrate how and when culture matters, and especially how much culture matters in relations to factors such as political power and material interests; (3) propose a typology of culture-based theories that vary in terms of treating culture as a constraint or strategic resource; and (4) discuss problems of measurement and inference in the study of IO cultures.nbsp; The chapter includes several details examples drawn from cases of major international organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, and United Nations.nbsp;nbsp;/p

pThis chapter reviews the theories and empirical work on the organizational cultures of international organizations.nbsp; We tackle three key tasks: (1) provide a review of how organizational culture is conceptualized in a way amenable to observation and analysis; (2) assess how we can best demonstrate how and when culture matters, and especially how much culture matters in relations to factors such as political power and material interests; (3) propose a typology of culture-based theories that vary in terms of treating culture as a constraint or strategic resource; and (4) discuss problems of measurement and inference in the study of IO cultures.nbsp; The chapter includes several details examples drawn from cases of major international organizations such as the IMF, World Bank, and United Nations.nbsp;nbsp;/p

pAfter the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income irregular settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constitute between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. Apart from the activities of Latin American Housing Network (LAHN a href="http://www.lahn.utexas.org" title="www.lahn.utexas.org"www.lahn.utexas.org/a), there has been minimal attention directed at the earliest portion of settlements that formed some 25-40 years ago that now form a large part of the intermediate ring of the cities.nbsp;nbsp; Developed as a coordinated collaborative research project, the authors and contributors offer original perspectives on the policy challenges of densification and rehabilitation facing much of the low income housing of Latin American cities./p

pResearchers and practitioners working on housing theory, housing policy, comparative spatial and sociological research, and urban development issues will find the book highly significant./p