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More than a billion people live in improvised dwellings or shanty towns in the early twenty-first century. Whether in inner cities or on the outskirts of a metropolis, these settlements have been dubbed “Shadow Cities” by Robert Neuwirth. Neuwirth ...

School of Advanced Study, University of London


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    Locating the location of a South African location: the paradoxical pre-history of Soweto

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2011 27:35


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Locating the location of a South African location: the paradoxical pre-history of Soweto Howard Phillips (University of Cape Town) More than a billion people live ...

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    The long shadow of the Acropolis: migrant shanty towns on the outskirts of Athens, 1923-1955

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2011 24:24


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations The long shadow of the Acropolis: migrant shanty towns on the outskirts of Athens, 1923-1955 Bryan Claxton (King's College, University of London) More than a billi...

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    Unauthorized neighbourhoods of India's intermediate classes: a hidden side of shadow cities?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2011 26:08


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Unauthorized neighbourhoods of India's intermediate classes: a hidden side of shadow cities? Sanjeev Vidyarthi (University of Illinois Chicago) More than a billion...

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    The evolution of Nairobi segregation patterns. Semiotic and material practises in the discourse on the city since independence (1963)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2011 19:53


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations The evolution of Nairobi segregation patterns. Semiotic and material practises in the discourse on the city since independence (1963) Ilaria Boniburini (University of...

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    Shifting boundaries and enduring connections: networks of interaction in Nairobi's informal transportation sector

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2011 15:59


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Shifting boundaries and enduring connections: networks of interaction in Nairobi's informal transportation sector Meghan Ference (Washington University Missouri) M...

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    Slow moving shadows: transport, travel and shanty towns

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2011 17:10


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Slow moving shadows: transport, travel and shanty towns Gordon Pirie (University of Cape Town) More than a billion people live in improvised dwellings or shanty to...

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    Understanding the 21st century crisis in cities in the global South: a critical review of the utility of the historiography of urban modernity (and its shadows)

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    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Understanding the 21st century crisis in cities in the global South: a critical review of the utility of the historiography of urban modernity (and its shadows) Susan ...

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    Shadow spaces and settlements in the pre-modern city: antecedents or a universal phenomenon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2011 49:40


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Shadow spaces and settlements in the pre-modern city: antecedents or a universal phenomenon Derek Keene (IHR) More than a billion people live in improvised dwell...

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    Building resilience through adversity: the Jose Maria Caro Settlement of Santiago de Chile, 1959-2000

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    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Building resilience through adversity: the Jose Maria Caro Settlement of Santiago de Chile, 1959-2000 Nancy Nicholls (Universidad de Humanismo Cristiano and the Ponti...

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    Bringing class relations out of the shadows: capital and labour in an African shadow city

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    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Bringing class relations out of the shadows: capital and labour in an African shadow city Matteo Rizzo (Cambridge University) More than a billion people live in im...

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    Insurgent politics and contentious spaces: a comparative study of popular urban movements in South Africa in the 1940s and the present

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2011 18:30


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Insurgent politics and contentious spaces: a comparative study of popular urban movements in South Africa in the 1940s and the present Noor Nieftagodien (University ...

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    Internal governance structures in informal settlements: a comparative case study of community leadership in three informal settlements in Cape Town

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2011 22:15


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Internal governance structures in informal settlements: a comparative case study of community leadership in three informal settlements in Cape Town Laura Drivdal (Uni...

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    Ciudades en la Sombra

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2011 40:01


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Ciudades en la Sombra Alan Gilbert (UCL) More than a billion people live in improvised dwellings or shanty towns in the early twenty-first century. Whether in inne...

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    'One Hundred Years of Fortitude': growth and change of informal settlements in Caribbean Colombia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2011 24:11


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations 'One Hundred Years of Fortitude': growth and change of informal settlements in Caribbean Colombia Peter Kellett (University of Newcastle) More than a billion peopl...

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    Addressing informality after Peronism: the Plan de Emergencia as a founding step for the Argentinian discussion of informality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2011 15:53


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations Addressing informality after Peronism: the Plan de Emergencia as a founding step for the Argentinian discussion of informality Adriana Massidda (Cambridge University)...

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    (Un)planned slums under the Soviets: hidden aspects of the development of the concept of the Socialist City in the 1920s-30s

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2011 35:34


    Institute of Historical Research Shadow Cities: realities and representations (Un)planned slums under the Soviets: hidden aspects of the development of the concept of the Socialist City in the 1920s-30s Ivan Nevzgodin (Delft University of Techn...

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