Cities And Urban Geography In Latin America

Author : Vicent Ortells
Publisher : Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I
ISBN 13 : 9788480215176
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and urban geography in Latin America written by Vicent Ortells and published by Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El lector encontrará estudios sobre morfología, infraestructuras o nuevas formas de crecimiento urbano en distintas ciudades de Brasil, México, Argentina y Perú, heredero de las grandes civilizacions precolombinas y del modelo de ciudad regular europeo desarrollado por castellanos i portugueses.

Author : D. Rodgers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035137
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century written by D. Rodgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alan Gilbert
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Latin American City written by Alan Gilbert and published by Latin America Bureau (Lab). This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilbert (geography, University College, London) examines the reasons for and consequences of the mass movement from country to city and the enormous strain placed on the infrastructure and services of major cities, only intensified by cutbacks in social spending. First published in the UK in 1994 by the Latin America Bureau (Research and Action) Ltd., London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : D. Rodgers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035137
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century written by D. Rodgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jorge Enrique Hardoy
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urbanization in Latin America written by Jorge Enrique Hardoy and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ismael Aguilar-Barajas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317906888
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water and Cities in Latin America written by Ismael Aguilar-Barajas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.

Author : Arturo Almandoz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136767215
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950 written by Arturo Almandoz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new perspective on international planning.

Author : Cristián Henríquez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319970135
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Climates in Latin America written by Cristián Henríquez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the observation of urban climates in Latin-American and their relationships with urban sprawl, the economic emergence of Latin American countries, social segregation, urban ecology, disasters and resilience. The chapters include contributions dealing with urban heat islands, local climate zones, thermal comfort, air pollution, extreme climate index, green infrastructure, health issues and adaptions based on the socio-economic background of urban areas. This book revises the role of urban planning and environmental governance, highlighting the singularities in climate adaptation policies in developing countries.

Author : Christian Werthmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000403106
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Informal Urbanization in Latin America written by Christian Werthmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various kinds of informal and extra-legal settlements—commonly called shantytowns, favelas, or barrios—are the prevailing type of urban land use in much of the developing world. United Nations estimates suggest that there are close to 900 million people living in squatter communities worldwide, with the number expected to increase in the coming decades. Informal Urbanization in Latin America investigates prevailing strategies for addressing informal settlements, which started to shift away from large-scale slum clearance to on-site upgrading in Latin America over the last 40 years, by improving public spaces, infrastructure and facilities. The cases in this book range from one micro intervention (the Villa Tranquila Project in Buenos Aires) to three large-scale government-run projects: the celebrated Favela Bairro Program in Rio de Janeiro, the social housing program in São Paulo and the famous Proyectos Urbanos Integrales Approach in Medellín. The cases show a collaborative and sensitive transformation of landscape and public space, and provide designers and planners with the tools to develop better strategies that can mitigate the volatility that the residents of non-formal neighborhoods are exposed to. The book is a must-read for all who are interested or working in the global urbanization as well as social equity.

Author : Faranak Miraftab
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317636783
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of the Global South Reader written by Faranak Miraftab and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world. The Reader incorporates both early and emerging debates about the diverse trajectories of urbanization processes in the context of the restructured global alignments in the last three decades. Emphasizing the historical legacies of colonialism, the Reader recognizes the entanglement of conditions and concepts often understood in binary relations: first/third worlds, wealth/poverty, development/underdevelopment, and inclusion/exclusion. By asking: “whose city? whose development?” the Reader rigorously highlights the fractures along lines of class, race, gender, and other socially and spatially constructed hierarchies in global South cities. The Reader’s thematic structure, where editorial introductions accompany selected texts, examines the issues and concerns that urban dwellers, planners, and policy makers face in the contemporary world. These include the urban economy, housing, basic services, infrastructure, the role of non-state civil society-based actors, planned interventions and contestations, the role of diaspora capital, the looming problem of adapting to climate change, and the increasing spectre of violence in a post 9/11 transnational world. The Cities of the Global South Reader pulls together a diverse set of readings from scholars across the world, some of which have been written specially for the volume, to provide an essential resource for a broad interdisciplinary readership at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in urban geography, urban sociology, and urban planning as well as disciplines related to international and development studies. Editorial commentaries that introduce the central issues for each theme summarize the state of the field and outline an associated bibliography. They will be of particular value for lecturers, students, and researchers, making the Cities of the Global South Reader a key text for those interested in understanding contemporary urbanization processes.