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This book on urban low-income neighborhoods mainly focuses on the 1983 riot affected areas in Colombo. Various kind of information proved that, except the Tamil people living in the low-income neighborhoods, a significant number of the Tamils in Colombo were affected by the violence by mobs. The study mainly focuses attention on the way in which the low-income people manage to live together despite ethnic differences in their neighborhoods. Th...

The main focus of this book is on understanding the emerging relationship between State, Market and Social Classes in the city of Colombo in the context of emerging housing market and citizens' access to livable house in the city and its suburbs. The people's recent residential patterns or segregation of the area, urban life styles, and class formation due to the new housing communities have received only scant attention. The commercialization...

This book on Sociological Study of City mainly focuses on the development of Urban Sociology from its pioneers to the later radical orders. The influence of industrialism in urbanization, as illustrated by early pioneers of the subject, it seems, has been a salient component in various theories that have come along since. As such each and every theory stemming from different focus points such as transitional communities, housing classes, class...

This book analyses the characteristics and extent of urban poverty in Asia, using the three dimension of poverty: lack of income, lack of access and lack of power. Urban poverty is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. The urban poor live with many deprivations. Their daily challenges may include: limited access to employment opportunities and income, inadequate and insecure housing and services, violent and unhealthy environments, little or no soci...

Writing a good research proposal is a big challenge to post graduate scholars as well as researchers in the academic world. This book is aimed at helping such scholars to write a good research proposal. It is intended also to help them to think about their proposed research in a clear, structured and meaningful way. As discussed in the book, a good research proposal needs to present a researchable topic, statement of the problem, justification...