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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462823903321

Titolo

Locating right to the city in the Global South / / edited by Tony Roshan Samara, Shenjing He and Guo Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-94217-8

0-203-09110-8

1-136-20186-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in human geography ; ; 43

Altri autori (Persone)

ChenGuo

HeShenjing

SamaraTony Roshan

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Urbanization - Southern Hemisphere

Urbanization - Developing countries

Sociology, Urban - Southern Hemisphere

Sociology, Urban - Developing countries

Urban policy - Southern Hemisphere

Urban policy - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. A city divided against itself -- pt. II. Governance and cosmopolitanism : escaping the South -- pt. III. Governance and counter-governance : the shape of urban conflict and the urban future.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely recognized as central to many of the most pressing challenges facing the world, there is a need for a deeper understanding of cities of the South on their own terms.Locating Right to the City in the Global South marks an innovative and far reaching effort to document and make sense of u