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Megacities: The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South

By Kees Koonings , Dirk Kruijt

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2009
ISBN
1848132956, 9781848132955
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2092702 bytes)
Pages
240\209
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines the massive urbanization of the world's population. All around the world "Megacities" are becoming scenes of vast deprivation, especially in the global south. In such gigantic and dense social environments, complex sets of relationships link poverty and exclusion to urban politics, power relations and public policy. In these cities, local urban politics and policy-making is the strategic prey of violent actors. The urban poor are confronted with the challenge of dealing with their inevitable encounters with violence. Megacities examines recent world-wide trends in poverty and social exclusion, urban violence and politics, and links these to the challenges faced by policy-makers and practitioners in "megacities" across the globe.

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