Urban communities / city life Books

Book SynopsisThe 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.Trade Review“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)Table of ContentsForeword; Jennifer Robinson Preface; Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx Introduction; Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx 1. Poverty and 'the city; Susan Parnell 2. Women in cities: prosperity or poverty? A need for multidimensional and multispatial analysis; Sylvia Chant and Kerwin Datu 3. Space and capabilities: approaching informal settlement upgrading through a capability perspective; Alexandre Apsan Frediani 4. Constructing informality and ordinary places: A place-making approach to urban informal settlements; Melanie Lombard 5. Constructing spatialized knowledge on urban poverty: (multiple) dimensions, mapping spaces of deprivations, and claim-making processes in urban governance; Isa Baud 6. Refugees and Urban Poverty: A Historical View from Calcutta; Romola Sanyal 7. Expanding the 'Room For Manoeuvre': Community-Led Finance in Mumbai, India; Caren Levy 8. Where the street has no name: reflections on legality and spatiality of vending; Amlanjyoti Goswami 9. Gangs, guns and the city: urban policy in dangerous places; Gareth Jones and Dennis Rodgers Policy Reflection; Ellen Wratten and Charlotte Heath Conclusion; Charlotte Lemanski and Colin Marx

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Book SynopsisWith empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world the three volumes together represent one of the most complete and up to date accounts of the central role of water in the history and development of humanity.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Urbanization and water systems Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard Part 1 The first cities, their localization and structure 1. Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan. the tale of an early city and water control in ancient Palestine Lorenzo Nigro 2. Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilization: water supply and water use in the third millennium BC Michael Jansen 3. Xian: water management and the development of the city planning in history Xiaochang C. Wang and Rong Chen 4. Phoenician cities and water: the role of sacred sources in the urban development of Motya, Western Sicily Federica Spagnoli 5. Waters at Babylon Olof Pedersén 6. Water control in ancient Greek cities Demetris Koutsoyiannis and Anna Patrikiou 7. Plumbing Ancient Rome Katherine Rinne Part 2: Water systems and urban development through history 8. Aksum: water and urbanization in northern Ethiopia Federica Sulas 9. Machu Picchu: water engineering in the mountains Kenneth R. Wright 10. The water supply of Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople James Crow 11. Timbuktu: origin of urbanism by the “Mother’s well” Douglas Park 12. Water management in a maritime culture: the Swahili coast of East Africa Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher 13. Holy wells, hot springs and royal baths: water and socio-cultural developments in medieval and post-medieval Ethiopia Niall Finneran 14. An urban structure along the sacred waters of the Ganges in Varanasi Savitri Jalais 15. Damascus: the Death of the Garden of Eden Francesca de Châtel 16. An environmental history of the Viennese sanitation system – from Roman to modern times Michael Neundlinger, Sylvia Gierlinger, Gudrun Pollack & Fridolin Krausmann Part 3: The growth of the modern city 17. New York: water management and metropolitan development Betsy McCully 18. Paris: a history of water, sewers and urban development Sabine Barles & André Guillerme 19. Creating the urban hydraulic machine: water, technology, and the building of Boston Michael J. Rawson 20. Manchester: canals and the development of the city during the industrial revolution Peter Maw 21. Houston’s public sinks: water and wastewater services in the ‘energy capital’ of the world Martin V. Melosi 22. Bergen: water and sewage in the rainy city Morten Hammerborg and Martin Byrkjeland 23. History of water and sanitation services in the urban-rural context – the city of Tampere, Finland Tapio S. Katko and Petri S. Juuti 24. Los Angeles: the city’s water systems from its origins to today Irene J. Klaver 25. Dar es Salam: the development of water supply and sewage systems Marianne Kjellén and Alphonce Kyessi 26. Rotterdam dynamic polder and harbour city Fransje L. Hooimeijer & Han Meyer 27. Regulating discretion: privatization of Manilla’s water supply Leong Ching and Xun Wu Part 4: Urbanism and the water illusion 28. Mexico City: a tale of water development, its values and challenges 29. The Singapore water story re-examined Eduardo Araral and Leong Ching 30. Las Vegas: a city gambling with water Leah J. Wilds Index

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