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Slums

Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238878
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Slums written by Alan Mayne and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.

Planet of Slums

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 1844671607
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Planet of Slums written by Mike Davis and published by Verso. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.

Slum Health

Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520962796
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Slum Health written by Jason Corburn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

The Battle with the Slum

Author : Jacob August Riis
Publisher : Ferguson Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle with the Slum written by Jacob August Riis and published by Ferguson Publishing Company. This book was released on 1902 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.

Slum Wolf

Author : Tadao Tsuge
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137174X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Slum Wolf written by Tadao Tsuge and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants. Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his stories from the late Sixties and Seventies, never before available in English: a vision of Japan as a world of bleary bars and rundown flophouses, vicious street fights and strange late-night visions. In assured, elegantly gritty art, Tsuge depicts a legendary, aging brawler, a slowly unraveling businessman, a group of damaged veterans uniting to form a shantytown, and an array of punks, pimps, and drunks, all struggling for freedom, meaning, or just survival. With an extensive introduction by translator and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, this collection brings together some of Tsuge’s most powerful work—raucous, lyrical, and unforgettable.

Planet of Slums

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781844670222
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Planet of Slums written by Mike Davis and published by Verso. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated urban theorist lifts the lid on the effects of a global explosion of disenfranchised slum-dwellers. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly original development unforeseen by either classical Marxism or neoliberal theory. Are the great slums, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt? Davis provides the first global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor. He surveys Hindu fundamentalism in Bombay, the Islamist resistance in Casablanca and Cairo, street gangs in Cape Town and San Salvador, Pentecostalism in Kinshasa and Rio de Janeiro, and revolutionary populism in Caracas and La Paz.Planet of Slums ends with a provocative meditation on the "war on terrorism" as an incipient world war between the American empire and the slum poor.

Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums

Author : Rekha Sinha
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180693731
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums written by Rekha Sinha and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts at upgradation of slums and squatter settlements in the cities of Munger and Bhagalpur with a view to highlight the socio-economic life of the urban society in terms of environmental pollution.

Slum in India

Author : L. N. P. Mohanty
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176488921
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Slum in India written by L. N. P. Mohanty and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rediscovering Dharavi

Author : Kalpana Sharma
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181030
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Dharavi written by Kalpana Sharma and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that challenges the conventional notion of a slum. Spread over 175 hectares and swarming with one million people, Dharavi is often called 'Asia's largest slum'. But Dharavi is much more than cold statistic. What makes it special are the extraordinary people who live there, many of whom have defied fate and an unhelpful State to prosper through a mix of backbreaking work, some luck and a great deal of ingenuity. It is these men and women whom journalist Kalpana Sharma brings to life through a series of spellbinding stories. While recounting their tales, she also traces the history of Dharavi from the days when it was one of the six great koliwadas or fishing villages to the present times when it, along with other slums, is home to almost half of Mumbai. Among the colourful characters she presents are Haji Shamsuddin who came to Mumbai and began life as a rice smuggler but made his fortune by launching his own brand of peanut brittle; the stoic Ramjibhai Patel, a potter, who represents six generations from Saurashtra who have lived and worked in Mumbai; and doughty women like Khatija and Amina who helped check communal passions during the 1992-93 riots and continue to ensure that the rich social fabric of Dharavi is not frayed. It is countless, often anonymous, individuals like these who have helped Dharavi grow from a mere swamp to a virtual gold mine with its many industrial units churning out quality leather goods, garments and food products. Written with rare sensitivity and empathy, Rediscovering Dharavi is a riveting account of the triumph of the human spirit over poverty and want.

Slum Development in India

Author : Sulochana Shekhar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030722929
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Slum Development in India written by Sulochana Shekhar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an earnest effort in understanding the slums and their needs by taking a case study of Kalaburagi, India. This study aims to contribute sustainable methodologies to advance the living conditions of slum dwellers and for better execution of slum policies. The core objectives are: 1) mapping the existing slums of Kalaburagi (formerly Gulbarga) city using slum ontology from very high-resolution data and validating the slum map through ground survey and using reliable data; 2) developing a model to understand the factors which are responsible for the present growth as well as to predict the future growth of slums; 3) estimating the housing demand of urban poor and suggesting a suitable site for the rehabilitation program; and 4) suggestions for the better intervention of government policies with special reference to in-situ program. Urban is the future, and slums are its reality. Sustainable development goals are directly and indirectly concerned about the increasing urbanization and the slums. Housing the urban poor and affordable housing to all are the national missions. Practically making these plans successful depends on a deep understanding of urban issues and proper methodology and technology to handle it. The participatory slum mapping, cellular automata slum model, housing demand analysis, and the spatial decision support system demonstrated in the book help in monitoring and managing the slums and thus lead towards a slum-free India.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF SLUM DWELLERS IN KARNATAKA - A CASE STUDY IN TUMKUR DISTRICT

Author : Dr.Padmini S.V.
Publisher : Archers & Elevators Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9390996198
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF SLUM DWELLERS IN KARNATAKA - A CASE STUDY IN TUMKUR DISTRICT written by Dr.Padmini S.V. and published by Archers & Elevators Publishing House. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slum Health

Author : Jason Corburn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520281071
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Environmental Perception of Slum Dwellers

Author : B. Hema
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170999539
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Perception of Slum Dwellers written by B. Hema and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Study In South Indian Shows How The Slum Dwellers Perceive Their Environment In Respect Of Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Housing Environment Pollution, Personal Hygiene, Voice, Light And Cultural Pollution. Has 5 Chapters And A Useful Appendix.

LIFE SCUFFLES OF SLUM DWELLERS A geographic Study of Gurgaon

Author : Dr. Virender Singh
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
ISBN 13 : 1716436990
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book LIFE SCUFFLES OF SLUM DWELLERS A geographic Study of Gurgaon written by Dr. Virender Singh and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.1 General Background The word ‘slum’ has a slangy connotation in British society from where this word is thought to be originated. In the eastern end of London, this word means ‘room,’ and it evolved over time to mean ‘back slum’ giving the sense of ‘back allay, street of poor people’ (Etymological Dictionary). The Slum is variously named, often interchangeably used, in different parts of the globe viz. shanty town, favela, rookery, gecekondu, skid row, barrio, ghetto, bidonville, taudis, bandas de miseria, barrio marginal, morro, loteamento, barraca, musseque, tugurio, solares, mudun safi, karyan, medina achouaia, brarek, ishash, galoos, tanake, baladi, trushebi, chalis, katras, zopadpattis, bustee, estero, looban, dagatan, umjondolo, watta, udukku, and chereka bete (UN-Habitat, 2003). Below are some of the definitions of slum given by some eminent social scientists working in the field of slums. Merrium Websters’ American Dictionary defines slums as “a densely populated usually urban area marked by crowding, dirty run-down housing, poverty, and social disorganization” whereas the Oxford Dictionary defines slums to be a “squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people” and it also tells that the slums consists of type of “houses or buildings unfit for human habitation”. As per, the Cambridge online dictionary, a slumis “a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city” in which the living conditions are “untidy or dirty”. Colin's dictionary states that “a slumis an area of a city where living conditions are very bad and where the houses are in bad condition” and it also lists some of its synonyms like hovel, ghetto, shanty, etc.

Slum Clearance and Related Housing Problems

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Slum Clearance and Related Housing Problems written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slum Acts

Author : Veena Das
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509537872
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Slum Acts written by Veena Das and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.

Slums of the World

Author : Eduardo López Moreno
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9211316839
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Slums of the World written by Eduardo López Moreno and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2003 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: