Shadow Cities A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World

Name: Shadow Cities A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World
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ISBN: 9780415953610

ISBN-10: 0415953618

ISBN-13: 9780415953610

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert Neuwirth

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'Shadow Cities' offers an historically based justification of squatters' rights, arguing that property rights are not 'natural'. To argue his case, Neuwirth provides first-hand accounts of squatters in megacities throughout the world - Rio, Delhi, Istanbul and Nairobi.

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Preface: Out of the Shadows


Prologue: Crossing the Tin Roof Boundary Line


Time Present



Rio de Janeiro: City without Titles



Nairobi: The Squatter Control



Mumbai: Squatter Class Structure



Istanbul: The Promise of Squatter Self-Government


Time Past



The 21st Century Medieval City



Squatters in New York


Issues on the Way Forward



The Habitat Fantasy



Are Squatters Criminals?



Proper Squatters, Improper Property


Time Future



The Cities of Tomorrow


Acknowledgments


Sources


Index