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19th Nov 2018

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Bringing urban space back in: A multilevel analysis of environmental inequality in Germany by Tobias Rüttenauer

Especially in cities with centrally located facilities, minorities bear a disproportionate exposure to industrial air pollution. This study compares the level of environmental inequality between cities.

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Chronic urban trauma: The slow violence of housing dispossession by Rachel Pain

Interrogating the connections between the slow violence of historical events and current day processes of urban dispossession: the linkages between managed industrial decline and contemporary housing dispossession under neoliberalism and austerity.

 

 

Book reviews now available on Urban Blog

Transgressive Citizenship book cover

Book Review - Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the City in São Paulo

Authored by Lucy Earle

"Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice: The Right to the City in São Paulo is an in-depth dive into the diverse political, legal and social strategies employed by different Brazilian housing movements in order to contest the unequal patterns that shape the urban landscape of one of the most important global cities in Latin America."

 

 

 

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