Cities and urban geography in Latin America
Title | Cities and urban geography in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Vicent Ortells |
Publisher | Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9788480215176 |
El lector encontrará estudios sobre morfología, infraestructuras o nuevas formas de crecimiento urbano en distintas ciudades de Brasil, México, Argentina y Perú, heredero de las grandes civilizacions precolombinas y del modelo de ciudad regular europeo desarrollado por castellanos i portugueses.
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Title | Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century PDF eBook |
Author | D. Rodgers |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2012-10-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1137035137 |
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Water and Cities in Latin America
Title | Water and Cities in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Ismael Aguilar-Barajas |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2015-05-08 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1317906888 |
Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.
The Latin American City
Title | The Latin American City PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Gilbert |
Publisher | Latin America Bureau (Lab) |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Gilbert (geography, University College, London) examines the reasons for and consequences of the mass movement from country to city and the enormous strain placed on the infrastructure and services of major cities, only intensified by cutbacks in social spending. First published in the UK in 1994 by the Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd., London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Urbanization in Latin America
Title | Urbanization in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge Enrique Hardoy |
Publisher | Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Anthology of essays on trends and issues in Latin American urbanization - includes historical, demographic aspects and political aspects, and covers land tenure in urban areas, obstacles to urban planning, etc. References and statistical tables.
Cities of the Global South Reader
Title | Cities of the Global South Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Faranak Miraftab |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 662 |
Release | 2014-10-10 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317636783 |
The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: “whose city? whose development?” the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially and spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities. The Reader’s thematic structure, where editorial introductions accompany selected texts, examines the issues and concerns that urban dwellers, planners, and policy makers face in the contemporary world. These include the urban economy, housing, basic services, infrastructure, the role of non-state civil society-based actors, planned interventions and contestations, the role of diaspora capital, the looming problem of adapting to climate change, and the increasing spectre of violence in a post 9/11 transnational world. The Cities of the Global South Reader pulls together a diverse set of readings from scholars across the world, some of which have been written specially for the volume, to provide an essential resource for a broad interdisciplinary readership at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in urban geography, urban sociology, and urban planning as well as disciplines related to international and development studies. Editorial commentaries that introduce the central issues for each theme summarize the state of the field and outline an associated bibliography. They will be of particular value for lecturers, students, and researchers, making the Cities of the Global South Reader a key text for those interested in understanding contemporary urbanization processes.
Social Urbanism in Latin America
Title | Social Urbanism in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Carlos Leite |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2019-10-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3030160122 |
This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogota, and the megacity of Sao Paulo, as well as from local innovative experiences in Argentina and Uruguay. These cities underwent promising transformation processes over two decades, applying planning and financing instruments of land policy which have produced significant shifts in the urban development paradigm in the region. The quest for social inclusion has emerged as the common denominator in these cities, awakening growing interest across several fields of urban studies, from public policies and city management to urban law, city financing, urban development, and innovative community participation processes. The book brings implications on urban land policy for transition cities in the Global South. The question of social inclusion in Global South cities is however far from being solved; the analysis presented in this book shows advances and hope, besides a long path still ahead, which can only be faced through a continuous and challenging incremental process. May this book be an incremental step.