Negotiating resilience with hard and soft city. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Binti Singh, Tania Berger, Manoj Parmar.
• Editors: Singh, Binti; Berger, Tania; Parmar, Manoj
• Contents: List of figures List of contributors Foreword: Adapt or Die by Sheela Patel Acknowledgements 1 Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City Binti Singh, Tania Berger, and Manoj Pamar PART I: City and Its Vulnerabilities 2 Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods and the New Meaning of “Community” in the Global North Tania Berger 3 Resilient Tactics and Everyday Lives in the Textile Mill Areas of Mumbai Dwiparna Chatterjee 4 Informal Housing of Migrants in Italy Flavia Albanese, Giovanna Marconi, and Michela Semprebon 5 Cities, Housing Exclusion, and Homelessness from a European Perspective Nicholas Pleace 6 Just and Healthy Cities in Times of Global Threats: Perspectives from the Global North Heike Köckler The Case of Settling Deonar Dump Yard Site, Mumbai Mamta Patwardhan and Tania Berger Environmental Injustice: Air Pollution and Data Inequity in Kibera, Nairobi Surbhi Agrawal PART II: Relocation, Resettlement, and Resilience 7 Resilience at the City Margins—Roma Settlements in Bulgaria Ilko Yordanov and Boyan Zahariev 8 Tolerance to Heat as a Coping Strategy of Low-Income Households in India and Austria Tania Berger and Faiz Ahmed Chundeli 9 Home-Based Income Generation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Alemea Girmay and Tania Berger 10 “Nothing Is to Be Gained by Involving Them”: Exploring Residents’ Lived Experiences of Resettlement in a Medium-Sized City in India Hiranmayi Shankavaram, Janani Thiagarajan, and Tania Berger 11 The Vertical versus Horizontal City: Why Vertical Resettlement (Mostly) Does Not Work for the Urban Poor Tania Berger 12 Conclusion: Towards Just Resilience Tania Berger, Binti Singh, Manoj Parmar, and Sandeep Balagangadharan Menon
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (230 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.76; Sociology, Urban; Cities and towns -- Growth; Resilience (Personality trait)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000842630; 9781000842562
• Related ISBNs: 9781032289434; 9781032440378
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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