Title: Street politics
First published: 1997
Description: In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, an active political movement emerged on the streets of Iran's largest cities. Poor people began to construct their own communities on unused urban lands, creating an infrastructure -- roads, electricity, running water, garbage collection, and shelters -- all their own. As the Iranian government attempted to evict these illegal settlers, they resisted -- fiercely and ultimately successfully. This is the story of their economic and political strategies.--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Poor, Politics and government, Vending stands, Squatter settlements, Political activity, Squatters, Poor, middle east, Iran, social conditions, Iran, politics and government
Places: Iran
Time periods: 1979-1997
LC classification: HV4132.56.A5 B39 1997