Cities From Scratch
eBook - PDF

Cities From Scratch

Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cities From Scratch

Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

About this book

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates about the cultures of poverty. Yet shantytowns have proven both more durable and more multifaceted than any of these perspectives foresaw. Far from being accidental offshoots of more dynamic economic and political developments, they are now a permanent and integral part of Latin America's urban societies, critical to struggles over democratization, economic transformation, identity politics, and the drug and arms trades. Integrating historical, cultural, and social scientific methodologies, this collection brings together recent research from across Latin America, from the informal neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, Managua and Buenos Aires. Amid alarmist exposés, Cities from Scratch intervenes by considering Latin American shantytowns at a new level of interdisciplinary complexity.

Contributors. Javier Auyero, Mariana Cavalcanti, RatĂŁo Diniz, Emilio Duhau, Sujatha Fernandes, Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Edward Murphy, Dennis Rodgers

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
No, books cannot be downloaded as external files, such as PDFs, for use outside of Perlego. However, you can download books within the Perlego app for offline reading on mobile or tablet. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Cities From Scratch by Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Javier Auyero, Brodwyn Fischer,Bryan McCann,Javier Auyero in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Latin American & Caribbean History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction - Brodwyn Fischer
  3. One / A Century in the Present Tense: Crisis, Politics, and the Intellectual History of Brazil’s Informal Cities - Brodwyn Fischer
  4. Two / In and Out of the Margins: Urban Land Seizures and Homeownership in Santiago, Chile - Edward Murphy
  5. Three / Troubled Oasis: The Intertwining Histories of the Morro dos Cabritos and Bairro Peixoto - Bryan McCann
  6. Four / Compadres, Vecinos, and BrĂłderes in the Barrio: Kinship, Politics, and Local Territorialization in Urban Nicaragua - Dennis Rodgers
  7. Five / The Informal City: An Enduring Slum or a Progressive Habitat? - Emilio Duhau
  8. Six / The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro - RatĂŁo Diniz (with captions by Bryan McCann)
  9. Seven / Informal Cities and Community-Based Organizing: The Case of the Teatro Alameda - Sujatha Fernandes
  10. Eight / Threshold Markets: The Production of Real-Estate Value between the “Favela” and the “Pavement” - Mariana Cavalcanti
  11. Nine / Toxic Waiting: Flammable Shantytown Revisited - Javier Auyero
  12. Bibliography
  13. Contributors
  14. Index