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Shadow cities : a billion squatters, a new urban world / by Neuwirth, Robert.(CARDINAL)468811;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-328) and index.Rio de Janeiro : city without titles -- Nairobi : the squatter control -- Mumbai : squatter class structure -- Istanbul : the promise of squatter self-government -- The 21st century medieval city -- Squatters in New York -- The Habitat fantasy -- Are squatters criminals? -- Proper squatters, improper property -- The cities of tomorrow."This is a book that confronts one of the least known but most important facts about the world's cities: that they are home to more than a billion squatters. Within a generation, that number is projected to grow to two billion - and more than half the people living in cities will be squatters. Yet most outsiders are unwilling to step into their communities, fearing crime, disease, and distress." "Investigative reporter Robert Neuwirth spent two years living in squatter neighborhoods on four continents. In Shadow Cities, he reports what he has learned from squatters in Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Mumbai, and Nairobi. He started his journey prepared to find squatters as signifiers of urban decay and lawlessness. Instead, he found vital communities of industrious and highly moral people who have built communities of lasting power." "Shadow Cities dispels the myth that shantytowns are purely a third world phenomenon, showing that the great cities of Europe and North America were once dominated by shantytowns. And Neuwirth shows that squatters will build vital neighborhoods without private titles as long as they know they are not subject to eviction." "Shadow Cities acknowledges that the world of the squatters may be gritty, but it shows that it is governed by hope. Squatters, Neuwirth argues are building the cities of tomorrow."--
Subjects: Squatter settlements.; Urban poor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The garbage king / by Laird, Elizabeth.(CARDINAL)348641;
When disaster strikes their families, Mamo and Dani are compelled to live as street urchins in the slums of an Ethiopian city.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Novels.; Abandoned children; Squatter settlements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cardboard city / by Jovanovic, Katarina,1962-author.(CARDINAL)873577;
"Cardboard City follows the lives of two young teens, members of a Romani family. Saida and Nikola experience harsh discrimination at school and crushing poverty in their improvised settlement, spread out under a bridge in Belgrade. Their dreams of escape and of leaving deplorable conditions behind trigger a family crisis. In particular, Nikola is a gifted trumpeter and aspires to be a famous musician, but it proves challenging to surmount the enormous barriers between his present situation and the self-mastery and life of dignity he seeks."--
Subjects: Novels.; Young adult fiction.; Fiction.; Squatter settlements; Romanies; Teenagers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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From my window [audio-enabled device] by Otávio Júnior,1983-author.; Dias, Beatriz C.,translator.(CARDINAL)823637; Starkoff, Vanina,1981-illustrator.(CARDINAL)619483;
"A boy describes the building, people, weather, games, and activities he can observe from his window in a favela, a neighborhood in Rio de Janiero. Includes notes about favelas and the author's experiences growing up in one." --Ages 4-10.Grades 2-3.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Dictionaries.; Fiction.; Sound recordings.; Squatter settlements;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Slum virgin / by Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela,1968-author.(CARDINAL)838496; Riddle, Frances,translator.(CARDINAL)837170;
The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police officers, prostitutes, transvestites, thieves, drug dealers, cumbia music and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed to be a ?revelation for contemporary literature? and ?pure dynamite? (Andraes Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourselves, Pushkin Press). Slum Virgin tells the larger-than-life story of Cleopatra, a transvestite who renounces prostitution after the Virgin Mary appears before her. Following the divine messages she receives, Cleo takes charge of the shantytown she lives in, transforming it into a tiny utopia. Ambitious journalist Quity knows she?s found the story of the year when she hears about it, but her life is changed forever once she steps into the shantytown and finds herself irrevocably seduced by the captivating subject of her article. The densely-packed, fast-paced prose, which weaves together everyday speech, shantytown slang and classical references, pulls the reader into the story immediately. The author turns phrases with dexterity, refusing to whitewash the reality of the poor and downtrodden, and jumping deftly from tragedy to biting comedy in a way that has the reader laughing out loud.
Subjects: Fiction.; Reporters and reporting; Prostitutes; Squatter settlements;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The Manhattan Hunt Club [Large Print] / by Saul, John.(CARDINAL)294201;
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Fugitives from justice; Squatter settlements; Homeless persons; Serial murders;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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The Manhattan Hunt Club / by Saul, John.(CARDINAL)294201;
The promising future of New York City college student Jeff Converse has suddenly been shattered by a nightmarish turn of events. Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, Jeff sees his life vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a far deadlier place than any penitentiary. He finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manhattan, in a hidden landscape of twisting tunnels and forgotten subterranean chambers. Here, an invisible population of the homeless, the desperate, and the mad has carved out its own shadow society. But they are not alone. The pitch-dark tunnels and abandoned subway stations are haunted by the unmistakable sounds of predators in search of game. Someone has made this forsaken civilization beneath the city a private killing ground . . . and the hunt is on.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Fugitives from justice; Homeless persons; Serial murders; Squatter settlements;
Available copies: 42 / Total copies: 49
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City of darkness revisited / by Girard, Greg,1955-photographer,compiler,writer of added text.; Goddard, Charles,writer of added text.; Lü, Dale,author.; Lambot, Ian,photographer,author,compiler,editor.; McHugh, Fionnuala,author.; Popham, Peter,author.(CARDINAL)744999; Resnick, Jon,author.(CARDINAL)423120; Saywell, James,author.(CARDINAL)393188; Wilkinson, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)737602;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Documentary photography; Squatter settlements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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From my window / by Otávio Júnior,1983-author.; Dias, Beatriz C.,translator.(CARDINAL)823637; Starkoff, Vanina,1981-illustrator.(CARDINAL)619483;
A boy describes the building, people, weather, games, and activities he can observe from his window in a favela, a neighborhood in Rio de Janiero. Includes notes about favelas and the author's experiences growing up in one.Ages 4-10.Grades 2-3.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Illustrated works.; Picture books.; City and town life; Neighborhoods; Squatter settlements;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 20
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From my window [audio-enabled device] by Júnior, Otávio,1983-author.(CARDINAL)822890; Dias, Beatriz C.,translator.(CARDINAL)823637; Starkoff, Vanina,1981-illustrator.(CARDINAL)619483;
A boy describes the building, people, weather, games, and activities he can observe from his window in a favela, a neighborhood in Rio de Janiero. Includes notes about favelas and the author's experiences growing up in one.Ages 4-10.Grades 2-3.
Subjects: Fiction.; Illustrated works.; Picture books.; City and town life; Neighborhoods; Squatter settlements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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