Locating right to the city in the Global South / edited by Tony Roshan Samara, Shenjing He and Guo Chen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Guo.

He, Shenjing.

Samara, Tony Roshan.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Routledge studies in human geography ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Southern Hemisphere.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Developing countries.

Sociology, Urban--Southern Hemisphere.

Sociology, Urban.

Sociology, Urban--Developing countries.

Urban policy--Southern Hemisphere.

Urban policy.

Urban policy--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely recognized as central to many of the most pressing challenges facing the world, there is a need for a deeper understanding of cities of the South on their own terms.Locating Right to the City in the Global South marks an innovative and far reaching effort to document and make sense of u

Contents:

pt. I. A city divided against itself

pt. II. Governance and cosmopolitanism : escaping the South

pt. III. Governance and counter-governance : the shape of urban conflict and the urban future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-94217-8

0-203-09110-8

1-136-20186-6

9780203091104

OCLC:

823719062