Cities in the developing world issues, theory, and policy

This collection of essays offers an authoritative and up-to-date textbook overview of the urban experience in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The twenty-nine contributors, leading experts across the social sciences, provide twenty-four case studies grouped around six main issues: development theory...

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Autor Principal: Gugler, Josef
Outros autores: Josef Gugler
Idioma:Undetermined
English
Publicado: New York Oxford University Press 1997
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Tóm tắt:This collection of essays offers an authoritative and up-to-date textbook overview of the urban experience in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The twenty-nine contributors, leading experts across the social sciences, provide twenty-four case studies grouped around six main issues: development theory and policy as they pertain to urbanization, rural-urban migration, urban employment structures, forms of social integration and control, the housing question, and urban politics. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible account of the burgeoning cities of the "South"
Descrición Física:396 p.
25cm
ISBN:0198742169
9780198742166