Format:
ca. 288 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780230371545
Series Statement:
Studies in development economics and policy
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Finn Tarp; Notes on Contributors; Part I Introduction; 1 Re-thinking the Latin American City; Part II Reconceptualizing Urban Fragmentation; 2 Urban Violence, Quality of Life, and the Future of Latin American Cities: The Dismal Record So Far and the Search for New Analytical Frameworks to Sustain the Bias towards Hope; 3 Cocaine Cities: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Dynamics and the Drug Trade in South America
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4 Mobility Challenges in Santiago de Chile: Improving Diagnosis and the Need to Shift the Understanding of Urban Inequality from Fixed Enclaves to Mobile Gradients5 The Vecino as Citizen: Neighbourhood Organizations in El Alto and the Transformation of Bolivian Citizenship; 6 Separate but Equal Democratization? Participation, Politics, and Urban Segregation in Latin America; Part III Reconnecting the City; 7 Irregular Urbanization as a Catalyst for Radical Social Mobilization: The Case of the Housing Movements of São Paulo
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8 On-Street Upgrading? Assessing the Consequences of Allocation and Regulation Policy in Santiago de Chile's Ferias Libres9 Of Guns, Ideas, and Taxes: Understanding the Political Logic of Violence-Reducing Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities; 10 Public-Private Co-operation for Gas Provision in Poor Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires: Assessing the Impact on Housing Improvements and Health; 11 A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life in Latin America; Part IV Conclusion; 12 Towards a New Research Agenda for 21st Century Latin American Urban Development; Index
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Finn Tarp; Notes on Contributors; Part I Introduction; 1 Re-thinking the Latin American City; Part II Reconceptualizing Urban Fragmentation; 2 Urban Violence, Quality of Life, and the Future of Latin American Cities: The Dismal Record So Far and the Search for New Analytical Frameworks to Sustain the Bias towards Hope; 3 Cocaine Cities: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Dynamics and the Drug Trade in South America
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4 Mobility Challenges in Santiago de Chile: Improving Diagnosis and the Need to Shift the Understanding of Urban Inequality from Fixed Enclaves to Mobile Gradients5 The Vecino as Citizen: Neighbourhood Organizations in El Alto and the Transformation of Bolivian Citizenship; 6 Separate but Equal Democratization? Participation, Politics, and Urban Segregation in Latin America; Part III Reconnecting the City; 7 Irregular Urbanization as a Catalyst for Radical Social Mobilization: The Case of the Housing Movements of São Paulo
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8 On-Street Upgrading? Assessing the Consequences of Allocation and Regulation Policy in Santiago de Chile's Ferias Libres9 Of Guns, Ideas, and Taxes: Understanding the Political Logic of Violence-Reducing Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities; 10 Public-Private Co-operation for Gas Provision in Poor Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires: Assessing the Impact on Housing Improvements and Health; 11 A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life in Latin America; Part IV Conclusion; 12 Towards a New Research Agenda for 21st Century Latin American Urban Development; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137035134
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/9781137035134
URN:
10.1057/9781137035134
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