Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singh, Binti (-)
Other Authors: Berger, Tania, Parmar, Manoj
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group 2023.
2023.
Series:Urban Futures Series
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866278106719
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Foreword: Adapt or Die
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City PART I: City and Its Vulnerabilities
  • 2 Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods and the New Meaning of "Community" in the Global North
  • 3 Resilient Tactics and Everyday Lives in the Textile Mill Areas of Mumbai
  • 4 Informal Housing of Migrants in Italy
  • 5 Cities, Housing Exclusion, and Homelessness from a European Perspective
  • 6 Just and Healthy Cities in Times of Global Threats: Perspectives from the Global North The Case of Settling Deonar Dump Yard Site, Mumbai Environmental Injustice: Air Pollution and Data Inequity in Kibera, Nairobi PART II: Relocation, Resettlement, and Resilience
  • 7 Resilience at the City Margins-Roma Settlements in Bulgaria
  • 8 Tolerance to Heat as a Coping Strategy of Low-Income Households in India and Austria
  • 9 Home-Based Income Generation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • 10 "Nothing Is to Be Gained by Involving Them": Exploring Residents' Lived Experiences of Resettlement in a Medium-Sized City in India
  • 11 The Vertical versus Horizontal City: Why Vertical Resettlement (Mostly) Does Not Work for the Urban Poor
  • 12 Conclusion: Towards Just Resilience.