UID:
almahu_9949460146202882
Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
ISBN:
1-00-329926-1
,
1-000-84263-0
,
1-000-84256-8
,
1-003-29926-1
Series Statement:
Urban Futures Series
Content:
This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges.
Note:
List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword: Adapt or Die -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City PART I: City and Its Vulnerabilities -- 2 Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods and the New Meaning of "Community" in the Global North -- 3 Resilient Tactics and Everyday Lives in the Textile Mill Areas of Mumbai -- 4 Informal Housing of Migrants in Italy -- 5 Cities, Housing Exclusion, and Homelessness from a European Perspective -- 6 Just and Healthy Cities in Times of Global Threats: Perspectives from the Global North The Case of Settling Deonar Dump Yard Site, Mumbai Environmental Injustice: Air Pollution and Data Inequity in Kibera, Nairobi PART II: Relocation, Resettlement, and Resilience -- 7 Resilience at the City Margins-Roma Settlements in Bulgaria -- 8 Tolerance to Heat as a Coping Strategy of Low-Income Households in India and Austria -- 9 Home-Based Income Generation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- 10 "Nothing Is to Be Gained by Involving Them": Exploring Residents' Lived Experiences of Resettlement in a Medium-Sized City in India -- 11 The Vertical versus Horizontal City: Why Vertical Resettlement (Mostly) Does Not Work for the Urban Poor -- 12 Conclusion: Towards Just Resilience.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-03-228943-0
Language:
English
