{"product_id":"city-of-desire-9781350438606","title":"City of Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South  informal settlements, or slums.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInformal 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh, Shafique offers ground-breaking insights into the \u003ci\u003eproduction \u003c\/i\u003eof informal urbanism through a brand-new approach rooted in deep ethnography and spatial mapping. Shafique explores, for the first time, the many different desires of settlement-dwellers and how these drive everyday urban change. He also offers brilliantly innovative recommendations for the policy-making, upgrading and management\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187315892567,"sku":"9781350438606","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/city-of-desire-9781350438606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}