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Book Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research

Download or read book Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research written by Alejandro Portes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century written by D. Rodgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research

Download or read book Current Perspectives in Latin American Urban Research written by Alejandro Portes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rethinking the Informal City

Download or read book Rethinking the Informal City written by Felipe Hernández and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume - from such disciplines as architecture, urban planning, anthropology, urban design, cultural and urban studies and sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities.

Book Latin American Urban Research

Download or read book Latin American Urban Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin American Urban Research

Download or read book Latin American Urban Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin American Urban Research

Download or read book Latin American Urban Research written by Felicity M. Trueblood and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anthropological Perspectives

Download or read book Anthropological Perspectives written by Wayne A. Cornelius and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1974-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perspectives for Long term Co sponsored  U S  Latin American  Research in Urbanization

Download or read book Perspectives for Long term Co sponsored U S Latin American Research in Urbanization written by Lawrence F. Salmen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Urbanism in Latin America

Download or read book Social Urbanism in Latin America written by Carlos Leite and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Companion to Urban and Regional Studies

Download or read book Companion to Urban and Regional Studies written by Anthony M. Orum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies Companion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies. Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic problems facing twenty-first century cities. Covering historical issues, current challenges, and comparative perspectives in urban studies, this timely resource: Addresses intensely debated policy issues such as governance, housing, immigration and migration, segregation, social mix, and gentrification Describes the use of demographic methods, advanced spatial analysis, social networks, policy mobilities, and ethnographies in urban studies research Discusses critical urban theory, feminist urban research, urbanization and environmental change, and the legacy of the Chicago School Covers contemporary research topics such as urban and regional inequalities, social heterogeneity and diversity, financialization Includes representative case studies of each region, including Australasia, Latin America, East Asia and South Asia Companion to Urban and Regional Studies is essential reading for scholars, researchers, practitioners, urban activists, and students, and it represents a must-have complement to The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.

Book Marginal Urbanisms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Felipe Hernández
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2017-05-11
  • ISBN : 1443893366
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Marginal Urbanisms written by Felipe Hernández and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects on urban development strategies that have been implemented recently in Latin America. Over the past twenty years, there has been great improvement in governmental efficiency, with local and national governments executing important projects that increase the quality of life in cities. However, the causes of collective disadvantage – which created the problems governments attempt to resolve – continue to affect many people throughout the continent. Thus, the essays here examine a wide range of socioeconomic, political, ethnic and historical issues that have influenced the emergence of marginal urbanisms in Latin American cities. The argument most strongly presented in this book is that infrastructural insertions need to be considered as the baseline for urban development, not as its main goal. Urban infrastructure cannot be taken as the only target for urban development programmes, but rather as an instrument for achieving more significant, and inclusive, urban transformations that respond more adequately to the realities of the people who inhabit Latin American cities.

Book Digital Poverty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hernan Galperin
  • Publisher : IDRC
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1552503429
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Digital Poverty written by Hernan Galperin and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the problem of inedequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies. Shows how market reforms have failed to ensure that the benefits of the Information Society have spread across the region.

Book Anthropological Perspectives on Latin American Urbanization

Download or read book Anthropological Perspectives on Latin American Urbanization written by Wayne A. Cornelius and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin American Urbanization

Download or read book Latin American Urbanization written by Charles Butterworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, Latin American Urbanization presents an in-depth look at a process of social change in an important region of the Third World. In this study, Professors Butterworth and Chance concentrate on the rural-urban migration of the lower classes and the adaptation of migrants to city life. They examine the rural, peasant and proletarian communities from which the migrants have come and to which they often remain loyal even after many years of urban residence. Drawing together in a coherent manner studies from several disciplines such as demographic, sociocultural, economic and political dimensions of urbanization, this book will interest a variety of scholars in the social sciences and the humanities.

Book Metropolitan Latin America

Download or read book Metropolitan Latin America written by and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1978-03-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin American Education

Download or read book Latin American Education written by Carlos Alberto Torres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a relevant sample of the current research on Latin American education in comparative perspective. In their introduction, Torres and Puiggros, two of the most recognized researchers of Latin American education, draw from political sociology of education, theories of the state, history of education, and deconstructionist theories to focus on changes in state formation in the region and its implications for the constitution of the pedagogical subject in public schools. Throughout the different chapters, the contributors present and analyze the most relevant topics, research agendas, and some of the key theoretical and political problems of Latin American education.