Description: The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum explores the history of the modern slum, connecting nineteenth-century iterations through multiple pathways to its contemporary existence. With chapters by 28 scholars, this Handbook brings an array of important and original perspectives and methodologies to bear on slums, real and imagined, across the globe. Drawing upon anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, history, politics, sociology and urban planning, the Handbook delves into households and communities whose existence has been hidden by stereotypes.
Review Quotes: "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." -- Choice