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Today, with half of the Earth’s population living in cities, urbanisation has become a kind of common ground for the social, spatial and environmental changes taking place worldwide. In this, the slum stands out as a symbol of extensive and rapid urban growth – the antithesis of balanced urban development. Moreover, roughly one third of the total urban population is living in precarious conditions in a variety of urban contexts. In this book we will present 15 slums with population ranging from approximately 10,000 to more than half a million inhabitants.
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Cvetinovic, M. (2016). Reading Case Studies. In: Bolay, JC., Chenal, J., Pedrazzini, Y. (eds) Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities. GeoJournal Library, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31794-6_4
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