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Book reviews The Poor Die Young: Housing and Health in Third World Cities S. CAIRNCROSS, J.E. HARDOY AND D. (EDS) London, Earthscan Publications, 1990, 309 pp. For South African policy makers, urban specialists, planners and especially for engineering consultants, this is an important, thought-provoking book. The Poor Die Young is the second of a promised trilogy of volumes published by Earthscan (London) which seek to summarise conditions, trends and problems in urban areas of the developing world. The first of these volumes, published in 1989, was Hardoy and Satterthwaite's superb Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World which investigated the scale, nature and distribution of recent urban change in the Third World and of government response to change; the final part of the Earthscan trilogy (promised for publication late in 1991) will concern issues of urban land and the extent to which poor people's housing problems are rooted in their exclusion from the legal land market. This second volume seeks to complement themes explored in the other two works by investigating aspects of housing and health in cities of the developing world. Like its predecessor volume, The Poor Die Young is written in a ncn-technical style which makes it accessible http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Social Sciences; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science; Sociology, general
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1015-3802
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1874-6330
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10.1007/BF03036675
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The Poor Die Young: Housing and Health in Third World Cities S. CAIRNCROSS, J.E. HARDOY AND D. (EDS) London, Earthscan Publications, 1990, 309 pp. For South African policy makers, urban specialists, planners and especially for engineering consultants, this is an important, thought-provoking book. The Poor Die Young is the second of a promised trilogy of volumes published by Earthscan (London) which seek to summarise conditions, trends and problems in urban areas of the developing world. The first of these volumes, published in 1989, was Hardoy and Satterthwaite's superb Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World which investigated the scale, nature and distribution of recent urban change in the Third World and of government response to change; the final part of the Earthscan trilogy (promised for publication late in 1991) will concern issues of urban land and the extent to which poor people's housing problems are rooted in their exclusion from the legal land market. This second volume seeks to complement themes explored in the other two works by investigating aspects of housing and health in cities of the developing world. Like its predecessor volume, The Poor Die Young is written in a ncn-technical style which makes it accessible

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