Gilbert A <br/><br/>
Mega-city in Latin America 

 - Tokyo  UNU Press  1996 
 - xviii, 282 p.  23 cm ; Pbk 
<br/><br/>The Latin American mega-city : an introduction / Alan Gilbert --<br/>Demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises, 1950-1990 / Miguel Villa and Jorge Rodríguez --<br/>Contemporary issues in the government and administration of Latin American mega-cities / Peter Ward --<br/>Land, housing, and infrastructure in Latin America's major cities / Alan Gilbert --<br/>A hundred million journeys a day : the management of transport in Latin America's mega-cities / Oscar Figueroa --<br/>Buenos Aires : a case of deepening social polarization / Luis Ainstein --<br/>Lima : mega-city and mega-problem / Gustavo Riofrío --<br/>Mexico City : no longer a leviathan? / Allison Rowland and Peter Gordon --<br/>Rio de Janeiro : urban expansion and structural change / Hamilton Tolosa --<br/>São Paulo : a growth process full of contradictions / Milton Santos --<br/>Santa Fé de Bogotá : a Latin American special case? / Alan Gilbert. 
<br/><br/> 	<br/>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.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-9280809350 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>America<br/>Sociology<br/>Metropolitan areas
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.76 GIL