Cities From Scratch : Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America /

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This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Auyero, Javier (Editor ), McCann, Bryan, 1968- (Editor ), Fischer, Brodwyn M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Marginality, Social > Latin America.
Urban poor > Latin America.
Slums > Latin America.
Urban poor.
Slums.
Marginality, Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
15.85 history of America.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Amerique latine.
Latijns-Amerika.
Latin America.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A century in the present tense : crisis, politics, and the intellectual history of Brazil's informal cities / Brodwyn Fischer
  • In and out of the margins : urban land seizures and homeownership in Santiago, Chile / Edward Murphy
  • Troubled oasis : the intertwining histories of the Morro dos Cabritos and Bairro Peixoto / Bryan McCann
  • Compadres, vecinos, and bróderes in the barrio : kinship, politics, and local territorialization in urban Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers
  • The informal city : an enduring slum or a progressive habitat? / Emilio Duhau
  • The favelas of Rio de Janeiro / Ratão Diniz
  • Informal cities and community-based organizing / Sujatha Fernandes
  • Threshold markets : the production of real-estate value between the favela and the pavement / Mariana Cavalcanti
  • Toxic waiting : flammable Shantytown revisited / Javier Auyero.

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