The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum
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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 "slum" was not coined in the twenty-first century's developing world or its recent past. The word emerged in early nineteenth-century London, and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0190879459
ISBN13:9780190879457
Release Date:September 2023
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:600 Pages
Weight:2.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.8" x 6.9" x 10.0"
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