Spaces of the poor : perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants

Spaces of the poor perspectives of cultural sciences on urban slum areas and their inhabitants

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What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Petersen, Hans-Christian (Editor ), Petersen, Hans-Christian, 1972- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2013
Bielefeld, Germany : [2013]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Mainzer historische Kulturwissenschaften ; Bd. 17.
Materias:
Urban poor.
Urban renewal.
Culture.
Poverty.
Slum.
Social History.
Social Inequality.
Sociology.
Space.
Urban Studies.
Urbanity.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Contents 5 lntroduction 7 A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure 15 The Subalterns Speak Out 47 "... not intended for the Rich" 71 Blood in the Air 97 Outcast Vienna 1900 121 Revisiting Campbell Bunk 135 Creating the City of Delhi 147 Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks 169 Urban Poverty and Gentrification 193 Europe's only Megacity 209 Contributors 237

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