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: First published in Great Britain
• Verlagsort: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: xvii, 191 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 1-350-43860-X
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43860-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)Dhaka / (s)Slum
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Shafique, Tanzil: City of Desire. - 1st ed. - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
• Sach-SW: Pauvres en milieu urbain - Bangladesh - Dhaka - Conditions sociales
• K10plus-PPN: 1915759595

Abstract

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 insights into the production of informal urbanism through an approach rooted in deep ethnography and spatial mapping. Shafique explores the many different desires of settlement-dwellers and how these drive everyday urban change. He also offers innovative recommendations for the policy-making, upgrading and management of both existing and future informal settlements