Greenwood,Public Libraries(3rdedn.), 357; C. Baggs, ‘“In the Separate Reading Room for Ladies are Provided those Publications Specially Interesting to Them”: Ladies’ Reading Rooms and British Public Libraries 1850–1914’,Victorian Periodicals Review38 (2005), 280–306. 24. The Times, 6 J...
Chapter 4 Revisiting Stokes' Theory of Slums: Towards Decolonised Housing Concepts from the Global South Raffael Beier Abstract Recently, large-scale housing programmes have experienced a revival in many countries of the Global South. They are criticised for their top-down, standard- ised, and ...
Planet of Slums. Having reviewed that book for the Summer 2006 issue of David Haskell’sUrban Design Review, I won’t dwell on it at length here; butPlanet of Slumsstates its subject matter boldy, on page one. There, Davis writes that we are now at “a watershed in human...