Abstract
This chapter sheds light on detailed theoretical debates on the issue of urbanization and urban poverty. In the first half of the chapter, the meaning of different concepts such as urban, urbanism, urbanized and urbanization have been discussed. The second half of the chapter deals with the meaning of poverty and urban poverty, followed by a discussion on the historical perspectives of urban poverty. Thereafter, different theories of poverty, including social transformation theory, functionalist theory, and conflict theory, have been discussed. Finally, the urban poverty debate in different parts of the world has been discussed.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
- 2.
For more detail about several dimensions of poverty see Narayan et al. (2000).
- 3.
To know more about the Physical Quality of Life Index, see Morris (1979).
- 4.
For details about the Food Security Index and the Relative Welfare Index, see Idriss et al. (1992).
- 5.
To know more about traditional research on urban poverty, see Seebohm (1901).
- 6.
For more details on Social Transformation Theory, please see Offiong (2001).
References
Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2002). Reversal of fortune: Geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(4), 1231–1294.
African National Congress (ANC). (1994). The reconstruction and development program. Johannesburg: Ravan Press.
Ahluwalia, A. (1978). An intra-cultural investigation of susceptibility to ‘perspective’ and ‘non-perspective’ spatial illusions. British Journal of Psychology. 69 (2): 233–241.
Amis, P. and Lloyd, P. (1990). Housing Africa’s urban poor. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
Anyanwu, J. C. (1997). Poverty in Nigeria: Concepts and measurement and determinants. Nigerian economic society selected paper for the annual conference on poverty alleviation in Nigeria (pp. 93–120).
Beall, J. (1996). Participation in the city: Where do women fit in? Gender and Development, 4(1), 9–16.
Bergel, E. E. (1955). Urban sociology. New York: Mc-Graw Hill.
Buettner, T. (2014). Urban estimates and projections at the United Nations: The strengths, weaknesses and underpinnings of the world urbanization prospects. Spatial Demography, 3(2), 91–108.
Dandekar, V. M., & Rath, N. (1971). Poverty in India. Poona: Indian School of Political Economy.
Davis, M. (2006). Planet of slums. New York: Verso.
Department for International Development. (2001). Meeting the challenge of poverty in urban areas. Strategies for achieving the international development target, the UK. Retrieved January 12, 2017, from https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/drivers_urb_change/official_docs/DFID_Strategy_Paper_urb_pov.pdf.
De Soto, H. (2000). The mystery of capital: Why capitalism triumphs in the west and fails everywhere else. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Durand-Lasserve, A., & Royston, L. (2002). Holding their ground: Secure land tenure for the urban poor in D]developing countries. London: Earthscan Publications.
Durand-Lasserve, A., Fernandes E., Payne, G., & Rakodi, G. (2007). Social and economic impacts of land titling programs in urban and peri-urban areas: A review of the literature. Retrieved February 13, 2018, from file:///C:/Users/Asus/Downloads/Social_and_economic_impacts_of_land_titling_progra.pdf.
Duranton, G. (2008). Cities: Engines of growth and prosperity for developing countries? Commission of Growth and Development. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Washington DC: The World Bank.
Eitzen, D. (2000). Social problems. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Feres, J. C. and Leon, A. (1990). The magnitude of poverty in Latin America. CEPAL Review, 41: 133–151.
Fischer, C. S. (1982). To dwell among friends: Personal networks in town and city. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Francis, P. A. (1991, May). Poverty in Bangladesh: Profile and policy implications. Report prepared for the Overseas Development Administration.
Friedman, J. (1996). Rethinking poverty: Empowerment and citizen’s rights. International Social Science Journal, 148(June), 161–171.
Gibbs, J. P. (1961). Urban research methods. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company.
Glaeser, E. L. (2013). A world of cities: The causes and consequences of urbanization in poorer countries. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Np. 19745, Cambridge. Retrieved May 30, 2019, from https://www.nber.org/papers/w19745.pdf.
Glaeser, E. L., & Gottlieb, J. D. (2009). The wealth of cities: Agglomeration economies and spatial equilibrium in the United States. Journal of Economic Literature, 47(4), 983–1028.
Gold, K. L. (2006). Youth economic empowerment as poverty reduction strategy in Ilorin Metropolis. Journal of Women in Colleges of Education (JOWICE), 10, 281–287.
Guest, A. M., Cover, J. K., Matsueda, R. L., & Kubrin, C. E. (2006). Neighbourhood context and neighbouring ties. City & Community, 5(4), 363–385.
Hauser, P. M., and Duncan, 0. D. (Eds.) (1959). The study of population: An inventory and appraisal, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Henderson, J. V. (2010). Cities and development. Journal of Regional Science, 50(1), 515–540.
Idriss, J., Alamgir, M., & Panuccio, T. (1992). The state of world rural poverty. London: IT Publications.
Islam, N., Huda, Narayan, F. B., & Rana, P. B. (1997). Addressing the urban poverty agenda in Bangladesh. Dhaka: University Press Limited.
Jackson, D. (1972). Poverty. London: Macmillan &.
Jedwab, R., & Vollrath, D. (2015). Urbanization without growth in historical perspective. Explorations in Economic History, 58, 1–21.
Jefferson, M. (1909). The anthropogeography of some great cities. Bulletin of American Geographical Society, XLI, 537–660.
Jones, G. A. (Ed.). (2003). Urban land markets in transition. CD ROM. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Kemp, R. (1994). Technology and the transition to environmental sustainability: The problem of technological regime shifts. Futures, 26(10), 1023–1046.
Lewis, O. (1958). Village life in Northern India. Urban, ILO: University of Illinois Press.
Lipton, M. (1977). Why poor people stay poor: A study of urban bias in world development. London: Temple Smith.
McGranahan, G., & Martine, G. (Eds.). (2014). Urban growth in emerging economies: Lessons from the BRICS. Abingdon: Routledge.
McGranahan, G., Satterthwaite, D. (2014). Urbanisation: Concepts and trends. Working Paper, International Institute for Environment and Development, London.
Michaels, G., Rauch, F., & Redding, S. J. (2012). Urbanization and structural transformation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(2), 535–586.
Miller, J. E., & Korenman, S. (1994). Poverty and children’s nutritional status in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology, 140(3), 233–243.
Mooya, M. M., & Chris, E. C. (2007). Informal urban property markets and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework, Urban Studies, 44(1): 147–165.
Morris, M. D. (1979). Measuring the condition of the world’s poor: The physical quality of life index. London: Frank Cass.
Moser, C. (1995). Women, gender and urban development policy: Challenges for current and future research. Third World Planning Review, 17(2), 223–237.
Murray, C. (1984). Losing ground. New York: Harper Collins.
Narayan, D., Chambers, R., Shah, M., & Petesch, P. (2000). Voices of the poor: Crying out for change. New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank.
Offiong, D. A. (2001). Globalization: Post-neodependency and poverty in Africa. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishing Co.
Ojha, P. D. (1970). A configuration of Indian poverty: Inequality and levels of living. Reserve Bank of India Bulletin, 24(1):16–27.
Oppenheim, C., & Harker, L. (1996). Poverty: The facts. London: Child Poverty Action Group.
Petmesidou, M., & Tsoulouvis, L. (1994). Aspects of the changing political economy of Europe: Welfare state, class segmentation and planning in the postmodern era. Sociology, 28(2), 499–519.
Pigou, A. C. (1952). Employment policy: Essays in economics. London: Macmillan.
Queen, S., & Carpenter, D. (1953). The American city (p. 265). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Ringen, S. (1988). Direct and indirect measures of poverty. Journal of Social Policy, 17(3), 351–365.
Santarelli, E., & Figini, P. (2002). Does globalisation reduce poverty? Some empirical evidence for the developing countries. Working Papers 459, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita’ di Bologna.
Satterthwaite, D. (1995). The under-estimation and misrepresentation of urban poverty. Environment and Urbanization, 7(1), 3–10.
Satterthwaite, G., McGranahan, G., & Tacoli, C. (2010). Urbanization and its implications for food and farming. Phil. Trans. R. Soc., 365, 2809–2820.
Seebohm, R. B. (1901). Poverty: A study of town life. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sen, A. K. (1981). Poverty and famines: An essay on entitlement and deprivation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Sen, A. K. (1984). Resources, values, and development. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press.
Sen, A. K. (1999). Development as freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Silva, K. T., & Athukorala, K. (1996). South Asia: An overview. In Yen, E. Samad, S. A. and Miller, S. M. (Eds.) Poverty: A global Review. Hand book as Poverty Research. Oslo and Paris: Scandinavian University press (pp. 65–85).
Sorokin, P., & Zimmerman, C. C. (1929). Principles of rural-urban sociology (p. xv). New York: Henry Holt and Co.
Tacoli, C. (2017). Migration and inclusive urbanization. Population Division. Department of Economics and Social Affairs. United Nations Secretariat. New York: United Nations.
Tacoli, C., & Agergaard, J. (2017). Urbanisation, rural transformations and food systems: The role of small towns. Human Settlements Working Paper. IIED, London.
Tacoli, C., McGranahan, C., & Satterthwaite, D. (2014). Urbanization, rural-urban mingartion and urban poverty. World Migration Report, 2015. A Background Report. International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Thompson, W. (1935). Population problems. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Todaro, M. P. (1994). Economic development (5th ed.). New York, London: Longman.
Townsend, P. (1979). Poverty in the United Kingdom: A survey of household resources and standards of living. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
U.S. Bureau of Census. (2002). Urban and rural definitions. Retrieved September 23, 2017, from http://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/urdef.txt.
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). (2016). Co-creating the urban future: the agenda of metropolises, cities and territories. Fourth Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization, UCLG, Barcelona.
United Nations. (2012). World urbanization prospects: The 2011 revision. New York: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHabitat). (2003). Expert group meeting on urban indicators. Secure Tenure, Slums and Global Sample of Cities, October 28–30, 2002, Revised Draft Report (P.33).
Wilcox, W. F. (1926). A definition of city in terms of pousity. In E. W. Burgess (Ed.), The urban community: Selected papers from the proceedings of the American Sociological Society, 1925. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, W. J. (1987). The truly disadvantaged. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, W. J. (1996). When work disappears: The world of the new urban poor. New York: Knopf.
Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a way of life. The American Journal of Sociology, 44(1), 1–24.
World Bank. (1991). Urban policy and economic development: An agenda for the 1990s. World Bank Policy Paper, Washington, DC.
World Bank. (2001). Land, security, property rights and the urban poor: Twenty five years of World Bank experience. World Bank Briefing Note 8.
Wratten, E. (1995). Conceptualizing urban poverty. Environment and Urbanization, 7(1), 11–33.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Panday, P.K. (2020). Theoretical Debates on Urban Poverty. In: The Face of Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3332-7_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3332-7_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-15-3331-0
Online ISBN: 978-981-15-3332-7
eBook Packages: Economics and FinanceEconomics and Finance (R0)