The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum

Alan Mayne is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His previous books include Slums: The History of a Global Injustice, The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland (with Tim Murray), and The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914.

• CONTENTS Contributors Introduction: Slums and the Modern WorldAlan Mayne PART I. FUNDAMENTALS1. <"What's in a Name?> " Alan Mayne2. Women and Wages in Britain's <"Classic> " SlumsEllen Ross 3. The Intimate Relationship between Slums and Racial Segregation: a South African Case StudyVivian Bickford-Smith PART II. URBAN DISADVANTAGE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD4. Informality as Process and the Social Construction of Slums: Southeast Asian CasesRoss King5. Slums: City Spaces of Governance and Global DisadvantageWinnie Mitullah 6. Slum Statistics in IndiaAmitabh Kundu7. Pride and Shame: the History of the Slums in Recife, BrazilFlávio de Souza 8. The Spatial Politics of US Homelessness: The Evolution of Boston's <"Skid Row> "Ella Howard9. The Rise and Decline of the European Struggle against Social ExclusionRob Atkinson PART III. PERSPECTIVES ACROSS TIME: FROM THE OUTSIDE10. The Discovery of <"Slums> " in mid-Nineteenth Century Cincinnati, OhioHenry C. Binford11. Social Geographies of Poverty in Victorian and Edwardian LondonRichard Dennis12. How Slumming makes the SlumFabian Frenzel 13. Slums: Neglect, Clear, or Improve?Richard Harris14. Haussmann and the Rebuilding of Paris, 1853-70: A Reassessment Antoine Paccoud 15. Regulations of Slums and Slum Improvement in British Colonial HistoryRobert Home 16. The Spillover Effects of Fire, Riot and Epidemics from SlumsAlan Smart and Eliot Tretter17. The Political Construction of Slums in IndiaNandini Gooptu 18. The Return of the Slums in Postwar America Alexander Von Hoffman19. Slums and Communism: (Un-)Slumming the (Post) Soviet City Ivan Nevzgodin 20. NGO Representation of Informal Settlements: the case of Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI)Marie Huchzermeyer PART IV. PERSPECTIVES ACROSS TIME: FROM THE INSIDE21. Notting Dale: The Making and Breaking of a West London Slum, 1865-1946Jerry White22. The Historic Fires of SingaporeKah Seng Loh23. The Archaeology of Immigrant Lives and Livelihoods at New York City's Five PointsRebecca Yamin24. Historical Archaeology and the Evolution of Twentieth-Century Slums in DetroitKrysta Ryzewski25. Archaeologies of Disadvantage in the Modern City: Sydney and Melbourne ComparedTim Murray26. Popular Housing Processes in Caribbean Colombia Peter Kellett27. La Perla, Puerto Rico: Beyond Formal and InformalFlorian Urban28. Living at the Center, Pushed to the EdgeKalpana Sharma

This compilation involves a comprehensive scholarly assessment of the contemporary so-called slum...This work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of urban history, urban planning, urban anthropology, urban archaeology, urban sociology, and urban social geography, though it may also be of some interest to other non-scholarly readers with an interest in historical and contemporary urban life.