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Cities to be tamed? : spatial investigations across the urban south / Francesco Chiodelli [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--Southern Hemisphere.
- Urbanization.
- Urbanization--Developing countries.
- Sociology, Urban--Southern Hempishere.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Across the global South, the rapid urbanisation and uneven development that have occurred over the past few decades have brought to the surface a tight connection between social conflicts and urban space. Indeed, the physical conformation of urban space is one of the primary factors that trigger social tensions, with repercussions at the metropolitan, regional and national scales. Such tensions are related to the conditions of social and spatial inequality which characterise many urban areas ...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART II; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; AFTERWORD; CONTRIBUTORS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 24, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6367-X
- OCLC:
- 889311882
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