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Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World

By:

Robert Neuwirth

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Routledge 2005Description: vii,335pISBN:

978-04159561-0

DDC classification:

307.3'36-DC22 1

LOC classification:

HD7287.95.N48 2004 1

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In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community.

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