TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koonings,Kees
AU  - Kruijt,Dirk
TI  - Megacities: the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south 
SN  - 9781848132962 (pb)
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Southern Hemisphere
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - Urban violence
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 'The chapters of this book were originally presented as draft papers at the conference'The politics of urban poverty, exclusion and violence: comparative analysis and policy insights,' organized in The Hague on 27 and 28 September 2007'--P. vii; Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-194) and index; The rise of megacities and the urbanization of informality, exclusion and violence / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- From popular movements to drug gangs to militias : an anatomy of violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay -- Megacity's violence and its consequences in Rio de Janeiro / Janice Perlman -- Coping with urban violence : state and community responses to crime and insecurity in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline Moser -- Middle Eastern megacities : social exclusion, popular movements and the quiet encroachment of the urban poor / Asef Bayat -- Urban governance and the paradox of conflict / Jo Beall -- Shoot the citizen, save the customer : participatory budgeting and bare citizenship in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Sgio Baierle -- Crisis of the state, violence in the city / Mariano Aguirre -- Urban exclusion and the (false) assumptions of spatial policy reform in South Africa / Susan Parnell and Owen Crankshaw -- Conclusions : governing exclusion and violence in megacities / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt
ER  -