City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (The Haymarket Series)

With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, this book explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. It also shows how poverty grew massively in the 1990s.

This is an assessment of the current state of play between urban theory, policy and architectural and planning practice in developing countries. It explains and criticizes what is happening in cities in an era now dominated by neoliberal development policy.

This handbook offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-income, urban-based girls and young women. It does this by presenting successful projects from around the world which demonstrate what can be done on a broad range of fronts.

This study describes how its contributors - Northern NGOs working in the South - are responding to the urban opportunity, building partnerships to support local organizations that are tackling urban problems, and bringing local views to bear on officials who may have the power to improve things.

This textbook challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above.

This is an assessment of the current state of play between urban theory, policy and architectural and planning practice in developing countries. It explains and criticizes what is happening in cities in an era now dominated by neoliberal development policy.

Presents the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Merrifield (geography, Clark U., Massachusetts) portrays the experience of urbanism as political as much as psychological and social. He explores how big cities create and are created by particular kinds of people, interpersonal and social relationships, cultures and sensibilities, and rituals and

Johannesburg is Africa's premier metropolis. This work reassesses classic theories of metropolitan modernity as it explores the experience of 'citiness' and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. This work includes an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg.

From the 1880s to World War II, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. This title provides insight into the realities of life there.