The City in Urban Poverty

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

   • Charlotte Lemanski, Colin Marx

   Pages 1-15

3. Poverty and ‘the City’

   • Susan Parnell

   Pages 16-38

4. Women in Cities: Prosperity or Poverty? A Need for Multi-dimensional and Multi-spatial Analysis

   • Sylvia Chant, Kerwin Datu

   Pages 39-63

5. Space and Capabilities: Approaching Informal Settlement Upgrading through a Capability Perspective

   • Alexandre Apsan Frediani

   Pages 64-84

6. Constructing Informality and Ordinary Places: A Place-Making Approach to Urban Informal Settlements

   • Melanie Lombard

   Pages 85-110

7. Constructing Spatialised Knowledge on Urban Poverty: (Multiple) Dimensions, Mapping Spaces and Claim-Making in Urban Governance

   • Isa Baud

   Pages 111-136

8. Refugees and Urban Poverty: A Historical View from Calcutta

   • Romola Sanyal

   Pages 137-157

9. Expanding the ‘Room for Manoeuvre’: Community-Led Finance in Mumbai, India

   • Caren Levy

   Pages 158-182

10. Where the Street Has No Name: Reflections on the Legality and Spatiality of Vending

    • Amlanjyoti Goswami

    Pages 183-204

11. Gangs, Guns and the City: Urban Policy in Dangerous Places

    • Gareth A. Jones, Dennis Rodgers

    Pages 205-226

12. Conclusion

    • Colin Marx, Charlotte Lemanski

    Pages 227-236

13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-239

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The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty.

• Urban Poverty
• Urban Geography
• The City
• Urban Space
• Urban Policy
• Urban Development
• city
• Governance
• poverty
• urban governance
• development aid
• urban geography and urbanism

“Edited by Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx, this book thus highlights the dynamics of space and its interaction with processes of exploitation. It also addresses what are currently implicit spatial aspects of urban poverty. … By promoting the spatial analytical framework that lies at the core of understanding urban poverty, this book calls for ‘a new spatial politics of urban poverty’ and offers a broader range of strategies for poverty reduction available to scholars and policy makers alike … .” (Hannah Keren Lee, E&U, environmentandurbanization.org, March, 2016)

• University of Cambridge, UK

  Charlotte Lemanski

• University College London, UK

  Colin Marx

Isa Baud, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sylvia Chant, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Kerwin Datu, The Global Urbanist. Alexandre Aspan Frediani, University College London, UK. Amlanjyoti Goswami, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India. Charlotte Heath, Department of International Development, UK. Gareth Jones, London School of Economics, UK. Caren Levy, University College London, UK. Melanie Lombard, University of Manchester, UK. Susan Parnell, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dennis Rodgers, University of Glasgow, UK. Romola Sanyal, London School of Economics, UK. Ellen Wratten, Department for International Development, UK.

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