The city in urban poverty /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:EADI global development series
EADI global development.
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13453558
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Lemanski, Charlotte, 1977-
Marx, Colin, 1967-
ISBN:9781137367433
1137367431
9781349474493
1349474495
9781137367426
1137367423
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: City in urban poverty 9781137367426
Standard no.:10.1057/9781137367433