The City in Urban Poverty.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Poverty and 'the City' -- 2 Women in Cities: Prosperity or Poverty? A Need for Multi-dimensional and Multi-spatial Analysis -- 3 Space and Capabilities: Approaching Informal Settlement Upgrading through a Capability Perspective -- 4 Constructing Informality and Ordinary Places: A Place-Making Approach to Urban Informal Settlements -- 5 Constructing Spatialised Knowledge on Urban Poverty: (Multiple) Dimensions, Mapping Spaces and Claim-Making in Urban Governance -- 6 Refugees and Urban Poverty: A Historical View from Calcutta -- 7 Expanding the 'Room for Manoeuvre': Community-led Finance in Mumbai, India -- 8 Where the Street Has No Name: Reflections on the Legality and Spatiality of Vending -- 9 Gangs, Guns and the City: Urban Policy in Dangerous Places -- Conclusion -- Index.

The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.

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