Cities from scratch : poverty and informality in urban Latin America / Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, and Javier Auyero, editors.

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Other Authors: Fischer, Brodwyn M. (Editor), Auyero, Javier (Editor), McCann, Bryan, 1968- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Slums > Latin America.
Marginality, Social > Latin America.
Urban poor > Latin America.
Physical Description:293 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A century in the present tense : crisis, politics, and the intellectual history of Brazil's informal cities / Brodwyn Fischer
  • In and out of the margins : urban land seizures and homeownership in Santiago, Chile / Edward Murphy
  • Troubled oasis : the intertwining histories of the Morro dos Cabritos and Bairro Peixoto / Bryan McCann
  • Compadres, vecinos, and bróderes in the barrio : kinship, politics, and local territorialization in urban Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers
  • The informal city : an enduring slum or a progressive habitat? / Emilio Duhau
  • The favelas of Rio de Janeiro / Ratão Diniz
  • Informal cities and community-based organizing / Sujatha Fernandes
  • Threshold markets : the production of real-estate value between the favela and the pavement / Mariana Cavalcanti
  • Toxic waiting : flammable Shantytown revisited / Javier Auyero.