Cities to be tamed? : spatial investigations across the urban south /
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Imprint: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ©2013 |
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Description: | 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235085 |
Other authors / contributors: | Chiodelli, Francesco, editor. |
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ISBN: | 9781443863674 144386367X 1306948495 9781306948494 9781443852302 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 24, 2014). |
Summary: | Across the global South, the rapid urbanisation and uneven development that have occurred over the past few decades have brought to the surface a tight connection between social conflicts and urban space. Indeed, the physical conformation of urban space is one of the primary factors that trigger social tensions, with repercussions at the metropolitan, regional and national scales. Such tensions are related to the conditions of social and spatial inequality which characterise many urban areas ... |
Other form: | Print version: 1443852309 |
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