Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Migrants and City-Making Migrants and City-Making Nina Glick Schiller,Ayse Çaglar In Migrants and City-Making Ay?e Ça?lar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institu… OL20183896W
Borderland City in New India Borderland City in New India Duncan McDuie-Ra Borderland Cities in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India?s Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India?s embrace of … OL20930408W
Spaces of the Poor Spaces of the Poor Hans-Christian Petersen What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt ur… OL20931536W
The Politics of Housing in Colonial Africa The Politics of Housing in Colonial Africa Martina Barker-Ciganikova Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how and why housing is much more than an everyday practice.… OL23498933W