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- demolition drive in Gujarat
- Evictions in Angola
- squatters and the vote
- 'No house, no vote' say squatters
- another false urban 'cleanup'
- Faux Shantytowns in New York
- threat to reporter covering squatter eviction
- bridges to the 21st century
- land and vote
- Neighbours rally round squatters
- Fighting evictions, even in Venezuela
- land for squatters...but what's the price
- Creating a New Orleans shantytown?
- Dignity restores a man born poor
- Wednesday night invasion
- Organizing squatters
- Blaming the favelas...again
- South Africa: will things be better for squatters ...
- charcoal dust...
- fiji follow-up
- Photo Finish
- Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Brutal divi...
- Favelas in Fiji
- Rhino update
- Mumbai demolitions
- Manila promises to re-house railway squatters
- Too many people, too few homes
- Rage at Kenya's corrupt elite
- The high fashion squat
- World's best cricket museum for Dharavi
- Metropolitan
- Finally, some sensible talk
- Dharavi is now a realty gold mine
- No pay phones
- Violence vs. Health
- Class contrasts
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- --news from Robert Neuwirth-- I recently (January 2020) signed a contract with Beacon Press for a new book of reportage on the economics of community. I'm also working on a collection of short stories about economics called The Book of Derivatives. Backstory: I've written two previous books: Stealth of Nations (on the global growth of the informal economy) & Shadow Cities (on the global growth of squatter communities). I live in New York City and do most of my writing on manual typewriters.
3 comments:
Rob,
I just finished reading your book Shadow cities. I learnt about your book from Dilip D'Souza. A really excellent book (though I noticed a small small typo: The hospital in Bandra is called Holy Family and not Holy Name Hospital).
I've been recommending it around - and I hope many more people read it.
Will you do any bookreadings or discussions in NYC?
Neela
Thanks, Neela, for the kind words and for understanding that 'Holy Name' was a typo (I got it right in the acknowledgments!)
I did an event at NYU last year, but haven't had any traction making anything else happen in NYC. I'll be in Ithaca making several presentations next week and am participating in a conference called Cities Under Siege at SUNY Stony Brook on the 10th of March.
I would love to do more public events in New York, so if you have any thoughts about concepts or places, please send them my way.
I really like this blog, it's refreshing to read something intelligent and well informed. Cheers.
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