Seeing urban politics from the perspective of those who reside in slums offers an important dimension to the study of urbanism in the global South. Many people

Seeing urban politics from the perspective of those who reside in slums offers an important dimension to the study of urbanism in the global South. Many people

For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations

Drawing from scholars with extensive fieldwork experience, this volume covers sixteen cities in fourteen countries across a belt stretching from Latin America,