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Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Citing examples from New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco and New York, a journalist describes the negative effects of ?gentrification? and reveals the destructive housing policies that are devised in corporate boardrooms and political back rooms across the country.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Cities are seeing levels of growth beyond the wildest visions of only a few decades ago, while vast areas in the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see little or no new hope or opportunity. Even as cities revive, they are becoming more unequal and more segregated. What does this mean for these cities?and the people who live in them?
Publisher
Earthscan
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book explores and evaluates urban sector and development policies in the context of market enablement. By articulating the linkages between this neo-liberal development paradigm and the way different actors in the urban sector enact policy responses, the book provides an understanding of both the factors driving this policy framework and the impacts of these policies on urban sector policies and programmes. In particular, the book focuses on...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...
14) The triumphs of Joseph: how today's community healers are reviving our streets and neighborhoods
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
xi, 158 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recognizing that an historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today's canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book-a dramatic, often shocking, exploration of systemic racism that transcends its time. Yet Columbia University...
17) Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor: cities building resilience for a changing world
Series
Publisher
World Bank
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xix, 297 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor. From "with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan": They give the kids candy to bet. My daughter loses the first four rounds, she's a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece. When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again. No! she shouts, grabbing her candy, I want to go home! True...
Series
Criterion collection volume 510
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Director-approved special ed.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (623 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been steadily building an impressive body of work since the late eighties, and these are the three films that put him on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. In Ossos, after a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby's safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. In Vanda's Room is...
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