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Learning from the Slums, Learning for the Slums…
2016Slums may clash with a vision of a modern city. However, bearing in mind that on a global scale, around one billion dwellers live in such poor settlements, the slum is an emblematic issue of contemporary urbanization. We therefore need to review the causes and effects of this phenomenon. The problem of slum cannot be solved on its own, taken out of its
Bolay, Jean-Claude +2 more
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The Urbanisation of Slums in Belo Horizonte — Slums, Slums Profile
1998The slums are the result of the urban development and migration as well as many different kinds of social-economical and cultural conditions. Another point of the beginning of them in Belo Horizonte is the lack of districts for low class. These are a disorganised occupation without basic infrastructure in private areas and in areas of risks which were ...
Cristina Menezes da Costa Croce +2 more
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Spatial relations of slums: size of slum clusters
2019 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), 2019More than half of the world’s population currently lives in cities. In many parts of the world, slums are part of the urban landscape. Despite different history, cultures and continents, slums share common properties. This allows for abstraction and modelling.
Jakob Hartig +2 more
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2023
Abstract This chapter interrogates the role of slumming, the corporeal or virtual visitation of slums, in the making of slum imaginaries. It focuses on the differences between slumming practices across time, and their effect on the ways slums are perceived.
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Abstract This chapter interrogates the role of slumming, the corporeal or virtual visitation of slums, in the making of slum imaginaries. It focuses on the differences between slumming practices across time, and their effect on the ways slums are perceived.
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Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2007
Drawing on a critical race theory framework, this article weaves together sociology, education, history, and performance studies to challenge deficit interpretations of Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory and to analyze Culture Clash’s play Chavez Ravine.
Tara J. Yosso, David G. García
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Drawing on a critical race theory framework, this article weaves together sociology, education, history, and performance studies to challenge deficit interpretations of Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory and to analyze Culture Clash’s play Chavez Ravine.
Tara J. Yosso, David G. García
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2023
This chapter starts with corruption plots in the space of the slum, describing corruption talk swirling around slum evictions and resettlement that turns fundamentally on a charged critique of structural inequality. It talks about how hypocrisies abound in the cleansing of the urban poor from the city that typically entails “whitening” the real estate ...
Malini Ranganathan +2 more
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This chapter starts with corruption plots in the space of the slum, describing corruption talk swirling around slum evictions and resettlement that turns fundamentally on a charged critique of structural inequality. It talks about how hypocrisies abound in the cleansing of the urban poor from the city that typically entails “whitening” the real estate ...
Malini Ranganathan +2 more
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Slums, Slum Dwellers and Multilevel Governance
The European Journal of Development Research, 2006The continuing existence of slums, which represent a severe threat to achieving development objectives, is officially deplored by almost everyone. Cities in the South today have to contend with spatial fragmentation and growing economic inequalities. In spite of significant international funding, public policies that have been implemented in this area,
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