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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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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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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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2023
Abstract Slum development interventions are often off-target, taking a “basic needs” welfare approach that has neither benefited the poor nor solved the problem of proliferating slums. This chapter uses political economy analysis to examine institutional and governance issues that play a central role in the development and persistence of
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Abstract Slum development interventions are often off-target, taking a “basic needs” welfare approach that has neither benefited the poor nor solved the problem of proliferating slums. This chapter uses political economy analysis to examine institutional and governance issues that play a central role in the development and persistence of
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The word slum was first coined in 1825 as a reference to the “back slums lying in the rear of Broad St” (OED). It did not take long for the term to acquire negative connotations, as seen in Leslie Stephen’s Playground of Europe (1871), wherein he describes “[t]he unspeakable ugliness of a back slum in London” (p. 176). By 1884 the word referred to both
S. Brooke Cameron, Ian M. Clark
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S. Brooke Cameron, Ian M. Clark
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1992
Colin G. Pooley, S. Martin Gaskell
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Colin G. Pooley, S. Martin Gaskell
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