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Cities of the Global South Reader
Faranak(Ed Miraftab
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Description for Cities of the Global South Reader
Paperback. Editor(s): Miraftab, Faranak; Kudva, Neema. Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series. Num Pages: 350 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 17 black & white halftones, 7 bla. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JFSG; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 189 x 246 x 20. Weight in Grams: 770.
The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: whose city? whose development? the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially ... Read more
The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: whose city? whose development? the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Routledge Urban Reader Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415682275
SKU
V9780415682275
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About Faranak(Ed Miraftab
Faranak Miraftab is Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches on globalization and transnational planning and coordinates the department's international programs and activities for its undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Miraftab's research concerns the global and local contingencies involved in the formation of the city and citizens' struggle to ... Read more
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