City and Society in Latin America
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Author | : United Nations University |
Publisher | : UN |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
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This book contains chapters on each of Latin America's six large cities (Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, and Santa Fé de Bogotá). It has four thematic chapters. the first discusses the demography of urban growth in the region and the other three focus on what are particularly sensitive issues in very large cities : public administration, transportation, and land, housing, and infrastructure. (Adapté du résumé de l'éditeur).
Author | : Geoffrey Baker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521766869 |
Representing pioneering research, essays in this collection investigate musical developments in the urban context of colonial Latin America.
Author | : Louisa Schell Hoberman |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Author | : Jorge Enrique Hardoy |
Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press |
Total 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.
Author | : Alan Gilbert |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780853458845 |
Since the 1950s, Latin America has been transformed from a rural to an urban society. The region now contains some of the world's biggest cities, headed by Mexico City with its 20 million inhabitants. In all but five Latin American countries, more people now live in towns and cities than in the countryside. This mass movement from country to city has put enormous strain on the infrastructure and services of cities such as Bogota and Caracas. Conditions continue to worsen as governments cut back social spending in their structural adjustment programmes. The Latin American City looks at the region's urban explosion from the perspective of the poor. It asks why people are attracted to the city and examines the underlying problem of rural poverty which fuels the exodus. It explores the options open to those arriving in the city and the strategies used in order to acquire land and build a home. Highlighting the role of the informal sector in urban survival, it also explains how popular organisation and protest can result in improved living standards for the poor.
Author | : Dirk Kruijt |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-04-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1848136749 |
As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempts to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society. Neoliberal economic policy, it is argued, has intensified the gulf between elites, insulated in gated estates monitored by private security firms, and the poor, who are increasingly mistrustful of state-sponsored attempts to impose order on their slums. Rather than the current trend towards government withdrawal, the situation can only be improved by co-operation between communities and police to build new networks of trust. In the end, violence and insecurity are inseparable from social justice and democracy.
Author | : Gilbert Michael Joseph |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780842024969 |
An anthology of translated and abridged classic works by authors previously little known to Western audiences: Cobo, Garcia, Santos, Vilhena, and Leite de Barros. They present critical analyses spanning hundreds of years, emphasizing Latin American cities of the first rank: Mexico City, Lima, Buenos Aires, Salvador da Bahia, Bogota, and Sao Paulo. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Andrew Hunter Whiteford |
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Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Popayán (Colombia) |
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Author | : Idurre Alonso |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1606066943 |
This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities—Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima—as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute’s vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities’ changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today’s Latin American megalopolis.