Title Fractured cities : social exclusion, urban violence and contested spaces in Latin America / Kees Koonings & Dirk Kruijt, editors.

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London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 165 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-160) and index.
Contents	Introduction: the duality of Latin American cityscapes -- Fractured cities, second-class citizenship and urban violence -- Rio de Janeiro -- Mexico City -- Medellin -- Managua -- Caracas -- Lima Metropolitana -- Living in fear : how the urban poor perceive violence, fear and insecurity -- Epilogue : Latin America's urban duality revisited.
Summary	As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. Based on empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempt to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society.
Note	Print version record.
Local Note	EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject	Urban poor -- Latin America.
	Urban violence -- Latin America.
	Latin America -- Social conditions.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Urban poor. (OCoLC)fst01162512
	Urban violence. (OCoLC)fst01162689
	Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
	Gewalttätigkeit.
	Neoliberalismus.
	Stadt.
	Lateinamerika.
	Steden.
	Sociale isolatie.
	Geweld.
	Latijns-Amerika.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Koonings, Kees, editor.
	Kruijt, Dirk, editor.
Other Form:	Print version: Fractured cities. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (DLC) 2006045213 (OCoLC)67405678
ISBN	9781848131354 (electronic book)
	1848131356 (electronic book)
	1842777300 (hardback)
	1842777319 (paperback)
	9781842777305 (hardback)
	9781842777312 (paperback)
	1281259152
	9781281259158
	9786611259150
	6611259155

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