Developing context and the millennium agenda -- Urbanization trends and forces shaping slums -- Cities and slums within globalizing economies -- Social dimensions -- Territoriality and spatial forms -- Economic dynamics -- New policy developments at the national and global levels -- Civil society in action -- Towards inclusive cities : reconsidering development priorities
Summary
The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level from local to global that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion peopl
Analysis
Housing
Poverty
Slums
Social policy
Urban renewal
Civil society
Case studies
Economic indicators
Social indicators
Statistics
Australia overseas comparisons
Notes
"UN-HABITAT."
"First published in the UK and USA in 2003 by Earthscan Publications LTD for and on behalf of the United National Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) [Nairobi, Kenya]"--Title page verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-300) and index
