ABSTRACT

The book concludes by emphasizing the specific and diverse ways in which women feel a sense of belonging and identification with life after legal tenure. Women are mediating change by communicating to each other their sense of belonging—whether positive or negative—thereby making adjustments, including ones they believe planners and implementers must make. A majority of the suggestions in this concluding chapter forward those the participants themselves make in the preceding pages. They call for the full, continual, and differentiated engagement of affected women in the planning, design, monitoring, and evaluation of place-making processes in cities in general (without) and in their own resettlement colonies (within) in particular.