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Women, slums and urbanisation : Examining the causes and consequences
A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights. The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities…
Viva favela ! Quand les démunis prennent leur destin en main
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Séminariste rebelle, rétif aux discours de l’Église qui confie le sort des pauvres à Dieu, Joaquim Melo décide de vivre dans ce que les Brésiliens appellent…
Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…
Un milliard d'êtres humains s'y entassent : que faire des bidonvilles ?
Le site de la TSR propose de voir en ligne l'émission de février 2010 consacrée aux bidonvilles : présentation du contexte, reportage, et entretien avec l'invité (Dennis Rodgers).
De plus, sur la page consacrée à l'émission, la TSR donne accès à…
De plus, sur la page consacrée à l'émission, la TSR donne accès à…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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Contents:
1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865
2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890
3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer
4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894
5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…
The Illegal City : Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi squatter settlement
Présentation par l'éditeur : The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an ‘illegal’ squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial…
The ghetto : Contemporary global issues and controversies
Abstract from the publisher : Too often the term “ghetto” is simply applied to any African American community, to the inner city as a whole, or recently to anything that is degraded or unrefined. But what is a ghetto? Does it arise…
The Durable Slum. Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai
In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the…
The challenge of slums : Global report on human settlement 2003
Abstract from the publisher : The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors that underlie the…
The battle with the slum
Extract from the Introduction, 'What the fight is about' :
The slum is as old as civilization... The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy. It was a losing fight until conscience joined forces with fear and…
The 21st Century medieval city
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
State of the world's cities 2010/2011 - cities for all: Bridging the urban divide
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The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban…
Sao Paulo: A tale of two cities
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UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground…