The city in urban poverty. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Charlotte Lemanski, and Colin Marx.
• Other Names: Lemanski, Charlotte, 1977-; Marx, Colin, 1967-
• Contents: 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 Colin Marx
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages), (10 illustrations)
• Subjects: 362.509173/2; Public Policy/City Planning & Urban Development; Urban poor -- Developing countries; Poverty -- Developing countries; Sociology, Urban -- Developing countries; City planning -- Developing countries; Urban policy -- Developing countries; Development/Economic Development; Development studies; Poverty & unemployment
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137367440
• Related ISBNs: 113736744X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.