Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Description:

293 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
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 : The Case of the Teatro Alameda / 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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780822355182 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822355183 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822355335 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822355337 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Slums Latin America.
Urban poor Latin America.
Marginality, Social Latin America.
Pauvres en milieu urbain Amérique latine.
15.85 history of America.
Marginality, Social.
Slums.
Urban poor.
Latin America.
Latijns-Amerika.

Added entries:

Fischer, Brodwyn M.
McCann, Bryan, 1968-
Auyero, Javier.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286529
Call No.: BIB 226927
Status: Available