Explore
Black Britain and Nelson Mandela
0 Ungluers have
Faved this Work
Login to Fave
In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South – informal settlements, or “slums”. Informal settlements house more than a billion people now and will house three billion people by 2050. Yet they remain marginalised in urban theory and practice, and most projects to improve them fail due to a lack of knowledge of the ongoing processes that build them. Through a detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh, Shafique offers ground-breaking insights into the production of informal urbanism through a brand-new approach rooted in deep ethnography and spatial mapping. Shafique explores, for the first time, the many different desires of settlement-dwellers and how these drive everyday urban change. He also offers brilliantly innovative recommendations for the policy-making, upgrading and management of both existing and future informal settlements. Written in an engaging narrative that weaves local stories with theoretical insight, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in international development, urban studies, sociology, and architecture. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Sheffield.
This book is included in DOAB.
Why read this book? Have your say.
You must be logged in to comment.
Rights Information
Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Downloads
This work has been downloaded 0 times via unglue.it ebook links.
- 0 - pdf (CC BY-NC-ND) at OAPEN Library.
Keywords
- Apartheid
- Black British History
- Black British Perspectives
- Black Diaspora
- Black History
- Black Intellectual Thought
- Black Lives Matter
- BLM
- Continental Africa
- Cultural history
- Intellectual Thought
- modern British history
- Nelson Mandela
- political history
- Race
- Social history
- Social Justice
- South Africa
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
- TRC
Links
DOI: 10.5040/9781350438637Editions