The city in urban poverty /

The authors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the spaces of the city in urban poverty research and policy. While existing research interprets the urban as a static container or empty backdrop for urban poverty processes, the chapters in this book critically explore the active rol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lemanski, Charlotte, 1977-, Marx, Colin, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Colección:EADI global development.
Temas:
Urban poor > Developing countries.
Poverty > Developing countries.
Sociology, Urban > Developing countries.
City planning > Developing countries.
Urban policy > Developing countries.
Poverty.
Urban poor.
Public spaces > Social aspects.
Poverty
Pauvres en milieu urbain.
Pauvreté.
Espaces publics > Aspect social.
poverty.
Poverty & unemployment.
Urban communities.
Development studies.
Urban & municipal planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
City planning
Sociology, Urban
Urban policy
Urban poor
Fattigdom.
Stadsplanering.
Urban politik.
Stadssociologi.
Society.
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Jennifer Robinson
  • Preface; Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx
  • Introduction; Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx
  • 1. Poverty and 'the city; Susan Parnell
  • 2. Women in cities: prosperity or poverty? A need for multidimensional and multispatial analysis; Sylvia Chant and Kerwin Datu
  • 3. Space and capabilities: approaching informal settlement upgrading through a capability perspective; Alexandre Apsan Frediani
  • 4. Constructing informality and ordinary places: A place-making approach to urban informal settlements; Melanie Lombard
  • 5. Constructing spatialized knowledge on urban poverty: (multiple) dimensions, mapping spaces of deprivations, and claim-making processes in urban governance; Isa Baud
  • 6. Refugees and Urban Poverty: A Historical View from Calcutta; Romola Sanyal
  • 7. Expanding the 'Room For Manoeuvre': Community-Led Finance in Mumbai, India; Caren Levy
  • 8. Where the street has no name: reflections on legality and spatiality of vending; Amlanjyoti Goswami
  • 9. Gangs, guns and the city: urban policy in dangerous places; Gareth Jones and Dennis Rodgers
  • Policy Reflection; Ellen Wratten and Charlotte Heath
  • Conclusion; Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx.

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