Mega-city in Latin America

By:

Gilbert A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 1996 UNU Press TokyoDescription: xviii, 282 p. 23 cm ; PbkISBN:

978-9280809350

Subject(s):

America Sociology Metropolitan areas

DDC classification:

307.76 GIL

Contents:

The Latin American mega-city : an introduction / Alan Gilbert -- Demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises, 1950-1990 / Miguel Villa and Jorge Rodríguez -- Contemporary issues in the government and administration of Latin American mega-cities / Peter Ward -- Land, housing, and infrastructure in Latin America's major cities / Alan Gilbert -- A hundred million journeys a day : the management of transport in Latin America's mega-cities / Oscar Figueroa -- Buenos Aires : a case of deepening social polarization / Luis Ainstein -- Lima : mega-city and mega-problem / Gustavo Riofrío -- Mexico City : no longer a leviathan? / Allison Rowland and Peter Gordon -- Rio de Janeiro : urban expansion and structural change / Hamilton Tolosa -- São Paulo : a growth process full of contradictions / Milton Santos -- Santa Fé de Bogotá : a Latin American special case? / Alan Gilbert.

Summary: By the year 2010, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more than eight million people. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst symptoms of the region's underdevelopment.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	GSB Collection	307.76 GIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		19110

The Latin American mega-city : an introduction / Alan Gilbert --
Demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises, 1950-1990 / Miguel Villa and Jorge Rodríguez --
Contemporary issues in the government and administration of Latin American mega-cities / Peter Ward --
Land, housing, and infrastructure in Latin America's major cities / Alan Gilbert --
A hundred million journeys a day : the management of transport in Latin America's mega-cities / Oscar Figueroa --
Buenos Aires : a case of deepening social polarization / Luis Ainstein --
Lima : mega-city and mega-problem / Gustavo Riofrío --
Mexico City : no longer a leviathan? / Allison Rowland and Peter Gordon --
Rio de Janeiro : urban expansion and structural change / Hamilton Tolosa --
São Paulo : a growth process full of contradictions / Milton Santos --
Santa Fé de Bogotá : a Latin American special case? / Alan Gilbert.

By the year 2010, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more than eight million people. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst symptoms of the region's underdevelopment.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.