Urban Life in Delhi Slums: Stories of Community Solutions and Resilience [Hardcover]

1. The Draw of the City? 2.?Resilient cities - why does slum type matter?? 3.?Community action solving problems through polycentric systems? 4.?Leading the slums - Governance, Politics, and Brokers? 5.?Stories from the Street - An intricate sidewalk ballet? 6.?Is there a Doctor in the House?? 7.?The Draw of City: Looking Ahead??Appendix

The book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organize to solve problems that arise in their neighbourhoods. Its?detailed assessment of slum spaces and networks will interest policymakers and researchers of international development, planning, politics, geography, and sociology.?

This book investigates urban life in the slums of Delhi, demonstrating how individuals and communities self-organise to solve problems that arise in their neighbourhoods.

Around one-quarter of the worlds urban population live in informal, slum and squatter settlements, representing a significant economic and cultural force. Despite this, settlements are often perceived as marginal, homogenous places, overlooking the resilience and agency of the diverse actors, networks and social groups working collectively within them. This book draws on extensive qualitative and quantitative data from squatter and resettlement colonies in and around Delhi, foregrounding the voices of residents to build a bottom-up picture of place and urban development. The book analyses the contexts in which households operate within their communities and the adaptiveness of individuals living in different slum types, with differing levels of governance. In doing so, the book demonstrates the effect which different institutional agreements and governance systems have on enterprise, empowerment, resilience, trust, dignity and engaging in life that has purpose and meaning.

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