The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum

by Alan Mayne

The modern slum is as prevalent as its stereotypes. Today, a slum is often understood to be a place of extreme poverty in the developing world-a place disordered, lacking the basic amenities of life, traumatized by violence, and perpetuated by dysfunctional families and disaffected extremists. Yet the word "slum" was not coined in the twenty-first century's developing world or its recent past. The word emerged in early nineteenth-century London, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190879459
• ISBN13: 9780190879457
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.9" x 10.0"