Title The city in urban poverty / [edited by] Charlotte Lemanski, Colin Marx

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series EADI global development series EADI global development. 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 Summary The authors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the spaces of the city in urban poverty research and policy. While existing research interprets the urban as a static container or empty backdrop for urban poverty processes, the chapters in this book critically explore the active role played by the spaces of the city in shaping and perpetuating urban poverty. Scholars and policymakers from a range of disciplinary perspectives use historic and contemporary examples from Asia, Africa and Latin America to demonstrate the ways in which urban poverty does not just exist in the spaces of the city, but that the city itself is also in urban poverty. So the city is both in and of urban poverty (and vice versa). Attending to the way that spaces of cities are part of the processes that reproduce and perpetuate exploitation and inequality sheds additional light on the dynamics of poverty for researchers and policy makers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Urban poor -- Developing countries Poverty -- Developing countries Sociology, Urban -- Developing countries City planning -- Developing countries Urban policy -- Developing countries Poverty. Urban poor. Public spaces -- Social aspects Poverty poverty. Poverty & unemployment. Urban communities. Development studies. Urban & municipal planning. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. City planning Poverty Sociology, Urban Urban policy Urban poor Fattigdom. Stadsplanering. Urban politik. Stadssociologi. Poverty & unemployment. Urban communities. Development studies. Urban & municipal planning. Society. Developing countries Form Electronic book Author Lemanski, Charlotte, 1977- Marx, Colin, 1967- ISBN 9781137367433 1137367431

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