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Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways. This edited collection is built around the experiences of Yeoville Studio, a research initiative based at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Through themed, illustrated stories of the people and places of Yeoville, the book presents a nuanced portrait of the vibrance and complexity of a post-apartheid, peri-central neighbourhood that has often been characterised as a 'slum' in Johannesburg. These narratives are interwoven with theoretical chapters by scholars from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting on the empirical experiences of the Studio and examining academic research processes. These chapters unpack the engagement of the Studio in Yeoville, including issues of trust, the need to align policy with lived realities and social needs, the political dimensions of the knowledge produced and the ways in which this knowledge was, and could be used.

Slums. --- City planning --- Social aspects.

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Infants --- Slums --- Cities and towns --- Mortality

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Urbanization --- Slums --- Urban poor --- Urban policy --- Humanitarian assistance --- Social science

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"The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their 'right to the city'."--Back cover.

Squatter settlements --- Slums --- Housing policy --- Urban poor --- Government policy --- Housing

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Urban slum dwellers-especially in emerging-economy countries-are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and "street" science-professional and lay knowledge-is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Cities and towns --- Urban health --- Slums --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- City health --- Urban public health --- Urbanization --- Public health --- Slum clearance --- Housing --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Health aspects --- E-books --- biology. --- brazilian slums. --- economic scientists. --- emerging economies. --- global health. --- global poverty. --- global slums. --- global south. --- hazards of slum living. --- health equity. --- health inequities. --- health issues in urban centers. --- health issues of urban poor. --- human settlements. --- indian slums. --- international poverty. --- international urban poor. --- kenyan slums. --- slum dwellers. --- slum life. --- slums worldwide. --- social scientists. --- street science. --- urban poor. --- urban slums.