Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World PDF
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SIHADOW CITIIES Page Intentionally Left Blank SIHADOW C I T I E S A BILLION SQUATTERS, A NEW URBAN WORLD ROSIERT N'IEUWIRTH ~ ~ ~~o~~~~n~~;up LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2005 by Routledge Published 2016 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 USA 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Copyright © 2005 by Robert Neuwirth Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informabusiness 10 9 8 7 6 54 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be printed or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or any other information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Neuwirth, Robert. Shadow cities : a billion squatters, a new urban world I Robert Neuwirth. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-93319-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1.Squatter settlements. 2. Urban poor—Housing. I.Title. HD7287.95.N48 2004 307.3'36—dc22 2004011849 ISBN: 978-0-203-93624-5 (eISBN) FOR SQUATTERS EVERYWHERE v Page Intentionally Left Blank TABLE OF CONTENTS Prologue: Crossing the Tin Roof Boundary Line 1 Time Present 1. Rio de Janeiro: City without Titles 2 5 2. Nairobi: The Squatter Control 67 3. Mumbai: Squatter Class Structure 1 01 4. Istanbul: The Promise of Squatter Self-Government 143 Time Past 5. The 21st Century Medieval City 17 7 6. Squatters in New York 205 Issues on the Way Forward 7. The Habitat Fantasy 241 8. Are Squatters Criminals? 2 51 9. Proper Squatters, Improper Property 2 81 Time Future 10. The Cities of Tomorrow 309 Acknowledgments 317 Sources 321 Index 329 vii Page Intentionally Left Blank Prologue Crossing the Tin Roof Boundary Line Let the wall crumble on which another wall is not growing. -Cesar Vallejo T ema said it with a sigh. He spoke softly, with great fatigue, as if he was confiding something inexpressible, something sad, something he feared an outsider might never understand. I made him repeat the words: "Ai, Robert, o terceiro mundo e urn jogo de video." "The third world is a video game." It was around midnight. We were sitting in Beer Pizza, a restau- rant halfway up the Estrada da Gavea, the main drag of the illegal neighborhood called Rocinha, the largest squatter community in Rio de Janeiro. The neighborhood was boogying. There was a con- vivial crowd at the outdoor tables of the pizzeria, and a guitarist had
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