The city in urban poverty

by Lemanski, Charlotte Marx, Colin

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Full title :The city in urban poverty / [edited by] Charlotte Lemanski, Colin Marx.

Summary

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 role played by the spaces of the city in shaping and perpetuating urban poverty. Scholars and policymakers from a range of disciplinary perspectives use historic and contemporary examples from Asia, Africa and Latin America to demonstrate the ways in which urban poverty does not just exist in the spaces of the city, but that the city itself is also in urban poverty. So the city is both in and of urban poverty (and vice versa). Attending to the way that spaces of cities are part of the processes that reproduce and perpetuate exploitation and inequality sheds additional light on the dynamics of poverty for researchers and policy makers.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781137367433, 1137367431
DOI:10.1057/9781137367433
oclc:ocn908685439
LC Classification:HV4173
Dewey Decimal:362.509173/2

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 Coli…

Subjects

City Planning City planning -- Developing countries developing countries development studies Fattigdom POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Poverty Poverty -- Developing countries Poverty & unemployment Society Sociology, Urban Sociology, Urban -- Developing countries Stadsplanering Stadssociologi Urban & municipal planning Urban communities Urban policy Urban policy -- Developing countries Urban politik Urban poor