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The Oxford handbook of the modern slum / edited by Alan Mayne.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slums.
- Low-income housing.
- Urban renewal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Other Title:
- Handbook of the modern slum
- Modern slum
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum' explores the history of the modern slum, connecting nineteenth-century iterations through multiple pathways to its contemporary existence. With chapters by 28 scholars, this handbook brings an array of important and original perspectives and methodologies to bear on slums, real and imagined, across the globe. Drawing upon anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, history, politics, sociology and urban planning, the book delves into households and communities whose existence has been hidden by stereotypes.
- Contents:
- What's in a Name? / Alan Mayne
- The Rise and Decline of the European Struggle against Social Exclusion / Rob Atkinson
- The Discovery of "Slums" in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati, Ohio / Henry C. Binford
- Social Geographies of Poverty in Victorian and Edwardian London / Richard Dennis
- How Slumming Makes the Slum / Fabian Frenzel
- Slums: Neglect, Clear, or Improve? / Richard Harris
- Haussmann and the Rebuilding of Paris, 1853-1870: A Reassessment / Antoine Paccoud
- Regulation of Slums and Slum Improvement in British Colonial History / Robert Home
- Women and Wages in Britain's "Classic" Slums / Ellen Ross
- The Spillover Effects of Fire, Riot,and Epidemics from Slums / Alan Smart, Eliot Tretter
- The Historic Fires of Singapore / Kah Seng Loh
- Slums and Communism: (Un-)Slumming the (Post-)Soviet City / Ivan Nevzgodin
- The Political Construction of Slums in India / Nandini Gooptu
- NGO Representation of Informal Settlements: The Case of Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) / Marie Huchzermeyer
- Notting Dale: The Making and Breaking of a West London Slum, 1865-1946 / Jerry White
- The Archaeology of Immigrant Lives and Livelihoods at New York City's Five Points / Rebecca Yamin
- Historical Archaeology and the Evolution of Twentieth-Century Slums in Detroit / Krysta Ryzewski
- Archaeologies of Disadvantage in the Modern City: Sydney and Melbourne Compared / Tim Murray
- The Intimate Relationship between Slums and Racial Segregation: A South African Case Study / Vivian Bickford-Smith
- Popular Housing Processes in Caribbean Colombia / Peter Kellett
- Living at the Center, Pushed to the Edge / Kalpana Sharma
- The Return of the Slums in Postwar America / Alexander Von Hoffman
- Introduction: Slums and the Modern World / Alan Mayne
- Informality as Process and the Social Construction of Slums: Southeast Asian Cases / Ross King
- Slums: City Spaces of Governance and Global Disadvantage / Winnie V. Mitullah
- Slum Statistics in India / Amitabh Kundu
- Pride and Shame: the History of the Slums in Recife, Brazil / Flávio A. M. de Souza
- La Perla, Puerto Rico: Beyond Formal and Informal / Florian Urban
- The Spatial Politics of US Homelessness: The Evolution of Boston's "Skid Row" / Ella Howard.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 22, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780190879471
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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