A Modern Guide to Urban Poverty

Edited by Enrica Morlicchio, Enzo Mingione and David Benassi

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Abstract: This Modern Guide provides a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for understanding and addressing urban poverty in contemporary societies. Contributing authors examine detailed case studies from cities in the Global North and South, adopting a range of approaches from quantitative analyses to in-depth ethnographies.

Keywords: Urban Poverty; Resistance; Survival Strategies; Migration; Urbanization; Poverty Regime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781800889682
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Chapters in this book:

Urban poverty: from its origins to the contemporary global reality

David Benassi, Enzo Mingione and Enrica Morlicchio

Urban poverty in the United States

Hilary Silver

Social innovation tackling poverty in European cities: the complexity of scales and social transformations

Tatjana Boczy and Yuri Kazepov

Urban poverty and policy in Africa

Jeremy Seekings

Urbanisation of poverty in China

Yunpeng Zhang

Pipes, tunnels, and veins: inhabiting the underground of dispossession in Bucharest, Romania

Michele Lancione

Urban poverty and informality in Southern Europe: a view from Naples

Giovanni Laino and Mario Trifuoggi

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban poverty: a case of the northern region of Bangladesh

Khandaker Mursheda Farhana and Kazi Abdul Mannan

Community action, social capital, and care in Oliver Bond House's struggle against poverty in Dublin's inner city

Lidia Katia C. Manzo

Dis/possessive geographies: poverty, violence, and private property in the proletarian neighborhoods of Mexico City

Rodrigo Meneses

The vulnerability context of homelessness in Delhi: evaluating the network shelter governance system

Ashwin Parulkar

Urban poverty and street vending in Mexico City and Milan

Diego Coletto and Verónica Crossa

Bricolage at the urban periphery: poor people's strategies in Argentina and Ecuador

Maricarmen Hernández and Javier Auyero

The “double movement” and the distribution of urban poverty amongst Lagos and Mexico City's waste workers

Côme Salvaire

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