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The blue bedspread The blue bedspread Raj Kamal Jha In the middle of a steamy Calcutta night the phone rings. An unnamed man in a city of millions answers to a voice telling him that his long-lost sister is dead. He must go to the hospital to identify… OL1049091W
Faith in the city Faith in the city Church of England. Commission on Urban Priority Areas. xvi, 398 pages : 23 cm OL12316387W
Planet of Slums Planet of Slums Mike Davis,Mike Davis,José María Amoroto Salido Mike Davis charts the expected global urbanization explosion over the next 30 years and points out that outside China most of the rest of the world's urban growth will be without industrialization or… OL150682W
Random family Random family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles a… OL15844775W
Shutting out the sky Shutting out the sky Deborah Hopkinson Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at t… OL15856727W
Miniature political economies Miniature political economies Aziz, Abdul Study with reference to Karnataka, India. OL1762499W
Living in India's slums Living in India's slums H. Schenk Contributed articles. OL18314465W
Imprisoning communities Imprisoning communities Todd R. Clear This volume maintains that current incarceration policy in urban America does more harm than good, from increasing crime to widening racial disparities and diminished life chances for youths. The aut… OL18519032W
Uncensored Uncensored Zachary R. Wood As the president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at Williams College, there's no one Zachary Wood has refused to debate or engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs. Here… OL19753108W
More happy than not More happy than not Adam Silvera When it first gets announced, the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto-miracle cure-alls don't tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. Aaron can't forge… OL20004466W
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
Urbanisation, slums, informal sector employment, and poverty Urbanisation, slums, informal sector employment, and poverty Arup Mitra With special reference to the class I cities of India. OL2278501W
Streets of insecurity Streets of insecurity Robin D. Tribhuwan Case studies on homeless persons of chiefly Bombay and Pune. OL2312264W
Defending a place in the city Defending a place in the city Erhard Berner xx, 243 p. : 23 cm OL2330189W
Our lady of Alice Bhatti Our lady of Alice Bhatti Mohammed Hanif As the new junior nurse at the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments, Alice Bhatti discovers she has inherited her father's gift of healing. OL24845341W
Urban squatter housing in Third World Urban squatter housing in Third World Ashok Ranjan Basu Study with special reference to Delhi. OL4755686W
The New Landscape The New Landscape Charles Correa On urbanization with reference to India. OL521348W
Slum dwellers, curse on development Slum dwellers, curse on development Anupurna Rathor With special reference to teenage girls, and urban poor, and their social condition in slums in Uttar Pradesh, India; a study. OL6051596W
Vandals to Visigoths Vandals to Visigoths Karen Eva Carr "Vandals to Visigoths will appeal to historians of Rome as well as of early medieval Europe and Spain. Anthropologists, economists, and political scientists who study Late Antiquity and the medieval … OL8246907W
Revolution in the Street Revolution in the Street Andrew Grant Wood "This new book examines the social protests of popular groups in urban Mexico during and after the revolution and also shows how the revolution inspired women to become activists in these movements."… OL8626562W
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