Tags
Language
Tags
<<
December 2024
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 1 2 3 4
  1. Home
  2. eBooks & eLearning
  3. Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters

Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters

Posted By: roxul
Date: 10 Oct 2023 05:02:10
Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters

Douglas Haynes, "Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters"
English | ISBN: 1477313125 | 2017 | 304 pages | PDF | 1320 KB

When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s. After years of homelessness, Dayani landed in a shantytown called The Widows, squeezed between a drainage ditch and putrid Lake Managua. Her neighbor, Yadira Castellón, also migrated from the mountains. Driven by hope for a better future for their children, Dayani, Yadira, and their husbands invent jobs in Managua’s spreading markets and dumps, joining the planet’s burgeoning informal economy. But a swelling tide of family crises and environmental calamities threaten to break their toehold in the city.
Read more
UPWARDS