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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Southern Hemisphere; Urbanization - Developing countries; Sociology, Urban - Southern Hemisphere; Sociology, Urban - Developing countries; Urban policy - Southern Hemisphere; Urban policy - Developing countries
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ChenGuo HeShenjing SamaraTony Roshan
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Locating right to the city in the Global South
• ISBN: 1-283-94217-8; 0-203-09110-8; 1-136-20186-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462823903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Human Geography