Street Politics(English, Paperback, Bayat Asef)

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Street Politics(English, Paperback, Bayat Asef) is written by Bayat Asef and published by Columbia University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0231108591 (ISBN 10) and 9780231108591 (ISBN 13).

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.