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  title info:
    title: City of Desire
    sub title: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh
  name:
    name part: Shafique, Tanzil
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
  abstract: In 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". Informal 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. Through a detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh, Shafique offers ground-breaking insights into the production of 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 of both existing and future informal settlements. Written in an engaging narrative that weaves local stories with theoretical insight, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in international development, urban studies, sociology, and architecture. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Sheffield.
  note: Tanzil Shafique.
  note: Introduction: Half the World at Stake PART 1: Agents 1. State: Another Hole in the Wall 2. People: Why "The Community" Does Not Exist 3. NGO: The Silent Partner 4. Event: Shaped by Fire PART 2: Arrangements 5. Legitimacy: The Social Imperative 6. Land: Lake? What a Load of Rubbish! 7. Housing: A Desire for Six Arms 8. Access: Through the Eye of a Needle PART 3: Intensities 9. Public Space: Fifty Shades of Publicness 10. Functional Mix: Holy Cow! 11. Governance: The Seventy Godfathers Epilogue: Bricolage, Bazaar, and Bog-box Appendix: Dirty Methods Bibliography Index
  subject:
    topic: Slums
  subject:
    geographic: Bangladesh
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Bangladesh
  subject:
    topic: Development studies
  subject:
    topic: Urban communities
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1437526966
  identifier: 9781350438637
  identifier: 1350438634
  identifier: 135043860X
  identifier: 9781350438606
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: BLOOM
    record creation date: 240917
    record change date: 20250218182710.4
    record identifier: in00005617840
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng