Subject(s): Housing -- Human development -- Urban poor -- Housing poverty in the third world :Global context of housing poverty, role of the world bank in housing -- Housing under high levels of human development : Hong Kong's slums and squatter areas- development perspective, slums and squatters settlements in south Korea, housing in the context of sustainable development- problems, polices and practices in Costa Rica, Mexico's urban housing environments - economic and ecological challenges of the 1990s -- Housing under medium levels of human development : Politics and housing strategies in the anglophone Caribbean, squatter settlements and slums in brazil, spontaneous settlements in Colombia- from opposition to reluctant acceptance to again opposition, informal and substandard housing in revolutionary Cuba, slums and squatter settlements in Thailand, logic of urban development and slum settlements- people's republic of China -- Housing under low levels of human development : Tale of informal housing in Egypt, squatter and slum settlements in Zambia, Tanzania, housing poverty in Ghana, squatter and slum settlements in Pakistan, Indian slums- problems, policies and issues -- Directions for the future : Future of planned urban development in third world