Megacity slums : social exclusion, space and urban policies in Brazil and India / editors, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, INALCO & Center for South Asian Studies (CEIAS, CNRS-EHESS), France, Frederic Landy, University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre, UMR Mosaiques-Lavue, & Center for South Asian Studies (CEIAS, CNRS-EHESS), France.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saglio-Yatzimirsky, Marie-Caroline, editor.

Landy, Frédéric, 1963- editor.

Series:

Urban challenges ; v. 1.

Urban challenges, 2045-0354 ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slums--Social aspects--Brazil.

Slums.

Slums--Social aspects--India.

Urban poor--Brazil.

Urban poor.

Urban poor--India.

Marginality, Social--Brazil.

Marginality, Social.

Marginality, Social--India.

Brazil--Social conditions.

Brazil.

India--Social conditions.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 446 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues. The challenges posed in Delhi, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have spurred public reformers into action through housing, rehabilitation and conservation programs. Civil society and the inhabitants of these cities have also begun to get involved. On the other hand, one must wonder whether these challenges were partly created by the deficiencies of these very reformers and civil society, be it their

Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Exclusion, Space and Urban Policies in Brazil and India Frédéric Landy and Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky; 1.1. Social exclusion, space and urban policies: surprising causalities; 1.1.1. Social exclusion and space; The debated notion of social exclusion; Space, far from being only a content; The spatial indicators of social exclusion; Space as a factor of social exclusion; 1.1.2. Space and urban policies; 1.1.3. Social exclusion and urban policies

1.2. What should be compared? Different scales, different contexts, but similar trends1.2.1. Differences in urbanization and development; 1.2.2. Similar dynamics regarding urban growth; 1.3. Methodology: how should comparisons be made?; 1.3.1. The SETUP project: a complementary team for comparative fieldwork; 1.3.2. Structure of the book; Appendix 1.1. Sites studied in the four cities; Bibliography

Chapter 2 National and Urban Contexts of the Four Metropolises Hervé Théry, Louise Bruno, Véronique Dupont, Frédéric Landy, Ailton Luchiari, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky and Marie-Hélène Zérah2.1. India and Brazil, contrasting urban situations; 2.1.1. High urbanization level in one country, a large number of metropolises in both; 2.1.2. The wealth of the four cities; 2.2. The growth of the four metropolises; 2.2.1. Delhi, a capital city expanding beyond its administrative boundaries; 2.2.2. Mumbai, an economic capital in a narrow peninsula

2.2.3. The three urban regions of Rio de Janeiro2.2.4. São Paulo, a North American city?; 2.3. Contrasting population densities and land uses; 2.3.1. High population densities; 2.3.2. Land use: de-industrialization and urban renewal; 2.4. Housing: the significant share of slums; 2.4.1. Shortage of decent housing for all; 2.4.2. Jhuggi-jhompris, jhopad patties and favelas; 2.5. Conclusion; Appendix 2.1. Typologies of land use at local scale: the case of São Paulo; Gated communities; Summer houses; Downtown middle-class residences; New housing estates in occupied areas

Small residential condominiumsPopular housing estates; Medium plots with roads; Medium plots without roads; Slums; Upper-class expansion; Bigger plots with roads; Lower-class expansion; Bibliography; Statistical data sources; Chapter 3 The Right of the City or the Right to the City? Rafael Soares Gonçalves Boxes: Claudia Franco and Frédéric Landy; 3.1. The current urban legal order: limitations and prospects; 3.2. A comparative study of the legislation on land regularization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

3.2.1. The legal principle on non-rehabilitation and the failure of the land regularization policy in Rio de Janeiro

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 13, 2013).

ISBN:

9781908979605

1908979607

OCLC:

860388911