ABSTRACT
Technological innovation came widely to be accepted as a necessary condition for corporate success; it came also to be accepted as a necessary condition for economic growth. Innovation is an idea in good currency - one of the limited numbers of fashionable ideas powerful for action in our culture. Squatter settlements are shantytowns, the vast spread-out communities in which the poor live in shacks they have built themselves, in the major cities in developing countries throughout the world. For the officials of municipal governments and housing agencies, and for many of the well-to-do residents of these cities, the settlements are an eyesore, a mass of debris that has been established by illegal, indeed criminal, action in violation of property rights, housing codes, and zoning laws. Frame-awareness, whether by expansion of the scope of historical attention or by attention to the present diversity of conflicting problem-setting stories, puts in touch with dilemmas of urban and social policy.
