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OverviewThe modern slum is as prevalent as its stereotypes. Today, a slum is often understood to be a place of extreme poverty in the developing world-a place disordered, lacking the basic amenities of life, traumatized by violence, and perpetuated by dysfunctional families and disaffected extremists. Yet the word Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan Mayne (Honorary Professorial Fellow, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 25.30cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 17.60cm Weight: 1.134kg ISBN: 9780190879457ISBN 10: 0190879459 Pages: 600 Publication Date: 01 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis compilation involves a comprehensive scholarly assessment of the contemporary so-called slum...This work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of urban history, urban planning, urban anthropology, urban archaeology, urban sociology, and urban social geography, though it may also be of some interest to other non-scholarly readers with an interest in historical and contemporary urban life. * Choice * Author InformationAlan Mayne is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His previous books include Slums: The History of a Global Injustice, The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland (with Tim Murray), and The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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