The City in Urban Poverty

1. Introduction
Charlotte Lemanski, Colin Marx

2. Poverty and ‘the City’
Susan Parnell

3. Women in Cities: Prosperity or Poverty? A Need for Multi-dimensional and Multi-spatial Analysis
Sylvia Chant, Kerwin Datu

4. Space and Capabilities: Approaching Informal Settlement Upgrading through a Capability Perspective
Alexandre Apsan Frediani

5. Constructing Informality and Ordinary Places: A Place-Making Approach to Urban Informal Settlements
Melanie Lombard

6. Constructing Spatialised Knowledge on Urban Poverty: (Multiple) Dimensions, Mapping Spaces and Claim-Making in Urban Governance
Isa Baud

7. Refugees and Urban Poverty: A Historical View from Calcutta
Romola Sanyal

8. Expanding the ‘Room for Manoeuvre’: Community-Led Finance in Mumbai, India
Caren Levy

9. Where the Street Has No Name: Reflections on the Legality and Spatiality of Vending
Amlanjyoti Goswami

10. Gangs, Guns and the City: Urban Policy in Dangerous Places
Gareth A. Jones, Dennis Rodgers

11. Conclusion
Colin Marx, Charlotte Lemanski

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Poverty, Aid and Development, Development Economics, Social Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Development Studies, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)