The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum

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Alan Mayne (Honorary Professorial Fellow, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne)

The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum

Alan Mayne (Honorary Professorial Fellow, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 September 2023

History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Population & demography

Series: OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES

The modern slum is as prevalent as its stereotypes. Today, a slum is often understood to be a place of extreme poverty in the developing world-a place disordered, lacking the basic amenities of life, traumatized by violence, and perpetuated by dysfunctional families and disaffected extremists. Yet the word

Edited by: Alan Mayne (Honorary Professorial Fellow Honorary Professorial Fellow University of Melbourne)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 176mm, Width: 253mm, Spine: 45mm
Weight: 1.134kg
ISBN: 9780190879457
ISBN 10: 0190879459
Series: OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 27 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

CONTENTS Contributors Introduction: Slums and the Modern World Alan Mayne PART I. FUNDAMENTALS 1.

Alan Mayne is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His previous books include Slums: The History of a Global Injustice, The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland (with Tim Murray), and The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914.

Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum

This compilation involves a comprehensive scholarly assessment of the contemporary so-called slum...This work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of urban history, urban planning, urban anthropology, urban archaeology, urban sociology, and urban social geography, though it may also be of some interest to other non-scholarly readers with an interest in historical and contemporary urban life. * Choice *