City of desire

• Verfasst von: Shafique, Tanzil [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: City of desire
• Titelzusatz: an urban biography of the largest slum in Bangladesh
• Verf.angabe: Tanzil Shafique
• Ausgabe: 1st ed
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 189 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Schrift/Sprache: Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43863-7
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43861-3
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43862-0
• DOI: doi:10.5040/9781350438637
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Bangladesh
• Sach-SW: Development studies
• Sach-SW: Urban communities
• K10plus-PPN: 1907101403
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlements, or "slums". Informal settlements house more than a billion people now and will house three billion people by 2050. Yet they remain marginalised in urban theory and practice, and most projects to improve them fail due to a lack of knowledge of the ongoing processes that build them. Through a detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh, Shafique offers ground-breaking insights into the production of informal urbanism through a brand-new approach rooted in deep ethnography and spatial mapping. Shafique explores, for the first time, the many different desires of settlement-dwellers and how these drive everyday urban change. He also offers brilliantly innovative recommendations for the policy-making, upgrading and management of both existing and future informal settlements. Written in an engaging narrative that weaves local stories with theoretical insight, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in international development, urban studies, sociology, and architecture. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Sheffield