Author: Mabel Louise WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Urban Blight and Slums
Author: Mabel Louise WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Slums and Blight --a Disease of Urban Life
Author: James W. FollinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slums
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Urban blight and slums
Author: Mabel Louise WalkerSlums, Urban Decline And Revitalisation (pug-7)
Author: C.S. Yadav (ed.)Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170220183
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Slums
Author: Alan MaynePublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780238878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
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.
Slums And Redevelopment
Author: J.A. YellingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135372276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Urban Blight and Slums
Author: Mabel Louise WalkerThe Origins of the Dual City
Author: Joel RastPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022666158X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a “dual city,” a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel Rast reveals that today’s tacit acceptance of rising urban inequality is a marked departure from the past. For much of the twentieth century, a key goal for civic leaders was the total elimination of slums and blight. Yet over time, as anti-slum efforts faltered, leaders shifted the focus of their initiatives away from low-income areas and toward the upgrading of neighborhoods with greater economic promise. As misguided as postwar public housing and urban renewal programs were, they were born of a long-standing reformist impulse aimed at improving living conditions for people of all classes and colors across the city—something that can’t be said to be a true priority for many policymakers today. The Origins of the Dual City illuminates how we normalized and became resigned to living amid stark racial and economic divides.
Downtown
Author: Robert M. FogelsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300098278
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Annotation Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. Urban historian Robert Fogelson gives a riveting account of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about it--changed between 1880 and 1950. Recreating battles over subways and skyscrapers, the introduction of elevated highways and parking bans, and other controversies, this book provides a new and often starling perspective on downtown's rise and fall.
Planet of Slums
Author: Mike DavisPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844671607
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.