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In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, an active political movement emerged on the streets of Iran's largest cities. Poor people began to construct their own communities on unused urban lands, creating an infrastructure -- roads, electricity, running water, garbage collecti…
Squatting in Europe: radical spaces, urban struggles
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Squatting offers a radical but simple solution to the crises of housing, homelessness and the lack of social space that mark contemporary society: occupying empty buildings and rebuilding lives and communities in the process. Squatting has a long and complex history, interwoven …
In 1999 a large building was discovered at Tel Kedesh that had been the administrative center for northern Upper Galilee in the Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid periods. The building had been partially destroyed and abandoned around 143 BCE, a date that corresponds remarkably we…
The purpose of this study was to explore the contribution of selected conditioning factors, perceptions of power, and other components of self-care in explaining health outcomes of women living in urban squatter settlements was conducted in Karachi, Pakistan. Statement's in Orem…
This study is designed to examine the impact of riverine hazards and displacement upon displacees, both males and females, in Bangladesh. The specific objectives of the study are to: (a) determine the magnitude of psychological distress associated with riverine hazards and displ…
Though New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict--an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and '80s Manhattan. Those decades of strife, how…
"La historia que la socióloga Liliana Cotto Morales nos narra en este libro es la interpretación de los orígenes de una lucha social particular. En este caso, la interpretación es doble por qué está basada en la reconstrución de lo informado sobre el tema en los periódicos The S…
