The City in Urban Poverty

Foreword; 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