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Urban Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Urban Power

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life—including adequate housing, accessible sanitation, and reliable transportation—are largely unavailable. Why are some cities more successful than others in reducing inequalities in the built environment? In Urban Power, Benjamin Bradlow explores this question, examining the effectiveness of urban governance in two “megacities” in young democracies: São Paulo, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Both cities came out of periods...

Social Urbanism in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Social Urbanism in Latin America

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogo...

The Cambridge History of Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 668

The Cambridge History of Latin America

This is an authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America, from the first contacts between native American peoples and Europeans in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present day.

Environmental Change and Security Project Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Environmental Change and Security Project Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-11-13
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena. Adopting this viewpoint, From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing maps the current terrain of political thinking, ethical conversations and community activism that complements the current discourse on new opportunities to access housing. Its carefully selected case studies cover many geographical contexts, including the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia, Asia and Europe. Importantly, the volume presents the views of stakeholders that are typically left unaccounted for in the process of housing developme...

Evictions - 7010iied
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Evictions - 7010iied

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: IIED

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São Paulo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

São Paulo

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: UN-HABITAT

"Data prepared by the Sao Paulo-based Fundacao Sistema Estadual de Analise de Dados (SEADE) in collaboration with UN-HABITAT"--T.p. verso.

Insurgent Citizenship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Insurgent Citizenship

Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world. This book examines the insurgence of democratic citizenship in the urban peripheries of São Paulo, Brazil, its entanglement with entrenched systems of inequality, and its contradiction in violence. James Holston argues that for two centuries Brazilians have practiced a type of citizenship all too common among nation-states--one that is universally inclusive in national membership and massively inegalitarian in distributing rights and in its legalization of social differences. But since the 1970s, he shows, residents of Brazil's urban peripheries have formulated a new citizenship that is destabilizing the old. Their mobilizations...

Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 554

Latin America

The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930 brings together chapters from Parts 1 and 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History to provide a complete survey of the Latin American economies since 1930. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

O urbano em fragmentos
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 324

O urbano em fragmentos

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Annablume

Se a cidade não é um bom lugar para morar, para que serve a cidade? A presente obra busca responder a essa questão através da análise de como o espaço urbano e, em particular, a produção habitacional, são utilizados como elementos de valorização de São Paulo através da crescente integração entre o mercado imobiliário e o capital financeiro, levando a um intenso processo de segregação socioespacial. A ação dos Fundos de Investimento Imobiliários, dos Fundos de Pensão, das Cooperativas Habitacionais, dos Consórcios Imobiliários e das Companhias Habitacionais é analisada para se compreender como os diversos agentes moldam o espaço urbano da maior metrópole brasileira, um espaço marcado pela crescente distância entre as distintas camadas de renda, uma distância que se revela maior do que aquela medida apenas em quilômetros.