Capítol 1.- Introduction: towards a nexus linking gender, assets, and transformational pathways to just cities. -- Capítol 2.- Female household headship as an asset? Interrogatin the intersections of urbanisation, gender, and domestic transformations. -- Capítol 3.- Longitudinal and intergenerational perspectives on gendered asset accumulation in Indio Guayas, and domestic transformations. -- Capítol 4.- Key drivers of asset erosion and accumulation in informal employment: findings from the Informal Economy Monitoring Study. -- Capítol 5.- Addressing gendered inequalities in access to land and housing. -- Capítol 6.- The gendered contradictions in South Africa's state housing: accumulation alongside an undermining of assets through housing. -- Capítol 7.- 'The devil is in the detail': understanding how housing assets contribute to gender-just cities. -- Capítol 8.- Routes to the just city: towards gender equality in transport planning. -- Capítol 9.- Gender-based violence and assets in just cities: triggers and transformation. -- Capítol 10.- The gendered destruction and reconstruction of assets and the transformative potential of 'disasters'. -- Capítol 11.- Challenging stereotypes about gendered vulnerability to climate change: asset adaptation in Mombasa and Cartagena.

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"With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanization is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century. As cities across the Global South expand exponentially in size and multiply in number, the disjuncture between the economic functions, institutional architecture and planning processes of cities, and the needs of its population, increases while a major outcome of these processes is searing inequality.There is a need, therefore, for individuals, households and local communities in low-income settlements to seek to address the situation themselves by relentlessly and systematically fighting to accumulate the asset portfolios of physical (housing), human (education and health), social, and financial (savings) capital necessary to get out of poverty.Bearing in mind the strategies researchers, policymakers, planners and practitioners can adopt to support such strategies while also confronting the challenges of 21st century urban areas, the aim of this book is to identify the contribution that a focus on assets and the asset planning processes makes to the development of more inclusive, just cities"-- Provided by publisher.