Janice Perlman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janice Perlman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janice |
| FAMILY NAME | Perlman |
| SIGNATURE | PERLMAN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Quanto maior a mudança, maior a estagnação
Em 1965, passei dois meses em Pontezinha e Ponte dos Carvalhos, duas pequenas cidades da periferia do Recife. Fiz parte do Projeto Cornell-Brasil, um grupo de estudantes americanos e brasileiros interessados no desenvolvimento do Nordeste brasileiro. Quase seis décadas depois, voltei como Professora Homenageada Fulbright, acolhida pela Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (Fundaj), para saber o que havia acontecido e buscar pessoas que estavam lá naquele mome…
Environmental and Social Sustainability of Urban Upgrading Programs
The Hill and the Asphalt
This article argues that informality is essential to urban vitality and that the ability of the formal sector to function depends upon the labour, consumer strength, social resilience, and intellectual capital of the people considered marginal. Based on the author’s 50 years of original fieldwork in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, she takes exception to the much-touted goal of ‘Cities without Slums’, contending that cities without slums are cities…
From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty" of Today
This paper derives from a LARR-sponsored forum at the LASA 2003 Congress held in Dallas in March 2003. Targeted at younger scholars, a panel of leading researchers whose early work was shaped by marginality and dependency thinking of the 1960s were invited to reflect cross-generationally about how paradigms analyzing poverty in Latin American cities have shifted from that time to the present. Specifically, each of the authors compares "marginalit…
Seven Voices From One Organization
It would be trite to say that citizen action means different things for different people; a cliche to say that it means different things simultaneously for the same person: yet both are overwhelmingly true. Listening carefully to the members of citizen action groups -- not the organizers, staff, or wellknown leaders -- but simply the members, reveals the entire gamut of understanding and confusions; gratifications and frustrations; of hopes and f…
From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty" of Today
This paper derives from a LARR-sponsored forum at the LASA 2003 Congress held in Dallas in March 2003. Targeted at younger scholars, a panel of leading researchers whose early work was shaped by marginality and dependency thinking of the 1960s were invited to reflect cross-generationally about how paradigms analyzing poverty in Latin American cities have shifted from that time to the present. Specifically, each of the authors compares "marginalit…
Seven Voices From One Organization
It would be trite to say that citizen action means different things for different people; a cliche to say that it means different things simultaneously for the same person: yet both are overwhelmingly true. Listening carefully to the members of citizen action groups -- not the organizers, staff, or wellknown leaders -- but simply the members, reveals the entire gamut of understanding and confusions; gratifications and frustrations; of hopes and f…
From the Marginality of the 1960s to the "New Poverty" of Today
This paper derives from a LARR-sponsored forum at the LASA 2003 Congress held in Dallas in March 2003. Targeted at younger scholars, a panel of leading researchers whose early work was shaped by marginality and dependency thinking of the 1960s were invited to reflect cross-generationally about how paradigms analyzing poverty in Latin American cities have shifted from that time to the present. Specifically, each of the authors compares "marginalit…
The Hill and the Asphalt
This article argues that informality is essential to urban vitality and that the ability of the formal sector to function depends upon the labour, consumer strength, social resilience, and intellectual capital of the people considered marginal. Based on the author’s 50 years of original fieldwork in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, she takes exception to the much-touted goal of ‘Cities without Slums’, contending that cities without slums are cities…
Environmental and Social Sustainability of Urban Upgrading Programs
Quanto maior a mudança, maior a estagnação
Em 1965, passei dois meses em Pontezinha e Ponte dos Carvalhos, duas pequenas cidades da periferia do Recife. Fiz parte do Projeto Cornell-Brasil, um grupo de estudantes americanos e brasileiros interessados no desenvolvimento do Nordeste brasileiro. Quase seis décadas depois, voltei como Professora Homenageada Fulbright, acolhida pela Fundação Joaquim Nabuco (Fundaj), para saber o que havia acontecido e buscar pessoas que estavam lá naquele mome…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Poverty (2 works) · Social exclusion (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Active listening (1 work)