Illegal Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illegal Cities write by Edesio Fernandes. This book was released on 1998. Illegal Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the major cities of Asia, Africa and Latin America, the urban poor often have to step outside the law to gain access to housing. This book seeks to answer why this is and what should be done about it.
The Illegal City
The Illegal City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illegal City write by Ayona Datta. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Illegal City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.
The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development
The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development write by Francesco Chiodelli. This book was released on 2017-09-27. The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confined to the literatures of anthropology, criminology, policing and, to an extent, political science. However, these debates have impinged little on cognate literatures, not least those of urban and regional studies which remain almost entirely undisturbed by such issues. This volume aims to open up debates across a range of cognate disciplines. The Illicit and Illegal in Regional and Urban Governance and Development is a multidisciplinary volume that aims to open up these debates, extending them empirically and questioning the dominant discussions of governance and development that have been rooted largely or entirely in the realm of licit and legal actors. The book investigates these issues with reference to a variety of different geographical contexts, including, but not limited to, places traditionally considered to be associated with illegal activities and extensive illicit markets, such as some regions in the so-called Global South. The chapters consider the ways in which these questions deeply affect the daily lives of several cities and regions in some advanced countries. Their comparative perspectives will demonstrate that the illicit and the illegal are an underappreciated structural aspect of current urban and regional governance and development across the globe. The book is an edited collection of research-informed essays, which will primarily be of interest to those taking advanced undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in human geography, urban and regional planning and a range of social science disciplines that have an interest in urban and regional issues and issues related to crime and corruption.
The City That Became Safe
The City That Became Safe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City That Became Safe write by Franklin E. Zimring. This book was released on 2013-11. The City That Became Safe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses many of the ways that New York City dropped its crime rate between the years of 1991 and 2000.
Shrinking Cities
Shrinking Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shrinking Cities write by Harry W. Richardson. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Shrinking Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards. The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale – from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed in this volume is the question of whether urban shrinkage policies are necessary or effective. The book comprises four parts: world or regional issues (with reference to the European Union and Latin America); national case studies (the United States, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Estonia); city case studies (Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Naples, Belfast and Halle); and broad issues such as the environmental consequences of shrinking cities. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the fields of urban studies, economic geography and public policy.
