part vii THE HIGH-RISE AND THE SLUM: SPECULATIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN MUMBAI 0001312817.INDD 787 7/7/2011 5:54:24 PM 0001312817.INDD 788 7/7/2011 5:54:24 PM THE HIGH-RISE AND THE SLUM: SPECULATIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN MUMBAI matias echanove and rahul srivastava Introduction There seems to be a prevailing perception that apart from its southernmost colonial quarters‚ Mumbai is essentially a schizophrenic urbanscape where emergent islands of modernity are surrounded
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POLITICAL ISLAM IN THE ERA OF NEOLIBERALISM The main topics The post-Islamist Turn (Asef Bayat) The relationship between the urban dispossessed and radical Islam (Asef Bayat) Understanding of political Islam from a historical materialist perspective (the debate between Amin and Tariq Amin-Khan) “What is post-Islamsim”: First of all‚ it should be clarified at the very beginning that the categories “Islamism” and “post-Islamism” serve primarily as theoretical constructs to signify change‚ difference
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Chapter 3 Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700 The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Martin Luther . He declared that the Bible alone was the source of God’s words. He started the "Protestant Reformation." John Calvin He spelled out his doctrine in 1536 called Institutes of the Christian Religion. He formed Calvinism. King Henry VIII formed the Protestant Church. There were a few people who wanted to see the process of taking Catholicism out of England occur more quickly
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The aim of every Caribbean country is to realize growth and development over time so as to achieve first world status. Most of the Caribbean countries are ranked as middle income countries. These countries realize that achieving first world status is a long term initiative given the many social problems that we face as a Caribbean nation. Among the many social problems that we face‚ poverty is the most pervasive of them all. Despite the effort of many of these countries to try and eradicate poverty
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SUSTAINABILITY AND CITY DEVELOPMENT A critique of the Implementation of the Abuja master plan By DANMOLE‚ Taibat OLAITAN M.Sc; RTP Department of Urban and Regional Planning‚ University of Lagos‚ Akoka-Yaba‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria (Being paper presented for publication by Environmental Conservation Research Team‚ FUT- Akure - Sept 2004) ABSTRACT Rapid urban expansion without effective environmental consciousness means that in virtually every urban
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Bangladesh: A Land of Climate Change‚ Migration and Vulnerability M. Mizanur Rahman Climate change is nothing to be seen in the open eye rather it is an issue of observation and understanding. With some macroeconomic analysis‚ it has been shown a number of times that climatic change will have the impact on both the level and growth of the Gross Domestic Production (GDP) especially in the poor countries. But the micro-economic analysis of individuals gives birth to a more serious scenario when
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HSC Unit 1: Pompeii and Herculaneum By the end of this unit‚ you will know about: • The early stages of occupation of P and H • A historical overview of P and H before the eruption • The physical environment (setting‚ natural features‚ resources) of P and H • Plans and streetscapes of both cities • What kind of sources are available (written and archeological) on P and H • The limitations and reliability of the sources‚ and how
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In the 1930 large areas of Oklahoma‚ Texas‚ Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ and Colorado were hit by one of the worst dust storms in America’s history.The dust storm destroyed the land and most of the population‚ almost everyone packed up and moved west. From the 1900 to 1930 families built farms in an area of mostly grassland so crops were hard to grow. In 1931 a drought spread across the middle of the nation‚ they were already suffering from the stock market crash of 1929 and the great depression. From 1931
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The population of the metropolis increases because people from rural areas and overseas migrate to the urban areas in large numbers‚ averaging 7.6 per cent per year (United Nations Population Division‚ 2001). Increasing of population in many big cities may causes serious problems even in advanced countries. Seoul‚ the capital city of South Korea‚ which more than 11 millions of population‚ has grown rapidly into a metropolis since the end of Korean War (Kim‚ 2005). Over population in Seoul creates
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which we often put our attention to. On the other hand‚ we dont pay attention to the squatters living in dirty corners of our nation. This for me is a big and universal problem poverty. Poverty can be seen anywhere in the Philippines. The squatters live anywhere possible by the rails‚ riverside‚ under the bridge or even on sidewalks. We see them often but we dont pay attention to their numbers. These squatters were actually descendants of people affected by the war and descendants of province people
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