Global Database
Asian Cities and Urban Settlers
The Asian Cities and Urban Settlers (ACUS) project is an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration to learn from the experience of people in marginal and spontaneously-built settlements. The objective is to place the oral accounts of settlers at the center of a comparative historical exploration of the vast, largely unplanned, and often legally ill-defined expansion of settlements that has come to dominate the urban process through large parts of Asia.