pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: CITIES OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH READER
By: Faranak Miraftab (Editor), Neema Kudva (Editor)
Format: Paperback

List price: £58.99
Our price: £53.09
Discount:
10% off
You save: £5.90
ISBN 10: 0415682274
ISBN 13: 9780415682275
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 16 October, 2014
Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series
Pages: 350
Synopsis: The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: "whose city? whose development?" the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially and spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities. The Reader's thematic structure, where editorial introductions accompany selected texts, examines the issues and concerns that urban dwellers, planners, and policy makers face in the contemporary world.These include the urban economy, housing, basic services, infrastructure, the role of non-state civil society-based actors, planned interventions and contestations, the role of diaspora capital, the looming problem of adapting to climate change, and the increasing spectre of violence in a post 9/11 transnational world. The Cities of the Global South Reader pulls together a diverse set of readings from scholars across the world, some of which have been written specially for the volume, to provide an essential resource for a broad interdisciplinary readership at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in urban geography, urban sociology, and urban planning as well as disciplines related to international and development studies. Editorial commentaries that introduce the central issues for each theme summarize the state of the field and outline an associated bibliography. They will be of particular value for lecturers, students, and researchers, making the Cities of the Global South Reader a key text for those interested in understanding contemporary urbanization processes.
Illustrations: 24 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 17 black & white
Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Conjectures and Refutations (Paperback)
By: Sir Karl Popper
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Our Price : £16.99
more details
The Language of Cities (Paperback)
By: Deyan Sudjic
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Rebel Cities (Paperback)
By: Mike Rapport
Little, Brown Book Group
Our Price : £9.48
more details
The Country And The City (Paperback)
By: Raymond Williams
Vintage Publishing
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Flaneuse (Paperback)
By: Lauren Elkin
Vintage Publishing
Our Price : £8.02
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 SOCIAL SCIENCES
 sociology, social studies
 social groups & communities
 urban communities


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket