Overview
Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions of the world. To understand Latin America today it is important to trace the origins and characteristics of the urban-rural divide, inequalities within urban areas, and the prospects for change. This is particularly important and timely given the challenges of widening environmental and social disparities, climate change, and climate justice. The authors critically analyze urban issues within the context of the national and regional political economy, neoliberal governance, and urban social movements. Latin America’s cities are sharply divided into wealthy enclaves and large peripheral areas, reflecting deep social and economic inequalities, leading to notable movements and reforms. This text explores Latin American cities, their history, similarities and differences, and current problems.
Full Product Details
Author: Tom Angotti
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9781442274471
ISBN 10: 1442274476
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 25 August 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This collection of essays provides an excellent, coherent, and timely overview of Latin American urban development issues. The book places Latin America in its global context and profiles a broad range of projects, cities, and countries. The contributions are all original and thought-provoking, including such rarely considered but important topics as participatory budgeting, place marketing, housing cooperatives, environmental contamination, public-private partnerships, and the many claims on 'rights to the city.'--Ray Bromley, State University of New York at Albany This text provides an excellent, coherent, and timely overview of Latin American urban development issues. The book places Latin America in its global context and profiles a broad range of projects, cities, and countries. The contributions are all original and thought-provoking, including such rarely considered but important topics as participatory budgeting, place marketing, housing cooperatives, environmental contamination, public-private partnerships, and the many claims on 'rights to the city.'--Ray Bromley, State University of New York at Albany This important text makes an invaluable contribution to theory and practice on three fronts: (1) it advances relational, integrative, and comparative perspectives and methodological approaches to understanding urban Latin America in a neoliberal globalizing context; (2) it provides a deep critique of many crucial concepts, including urban peripheries, human rights, best practices, and informality; and (3) it outlines a forward-looking, countervailing perspective based on promising cases that have the potential to radically challenge neoliberalism in ways that may reduce inequality and strengthen democracy.--Keith Pezzoli, University of California, San Diego This powerful text offers a much-needed critical overview of Latin America's unique urban conditions--affected by social uprisings, anti-capitalist movements, left politics, struggles for rights, and environmental confrontations. It is a masterfully curated collection of essays that not only addresses core development moments but crafts both a hopeful and dire version of what the future can look like for the more than 600 million inhabitants of the region, as well as its potential influence on the world at large. For many of us who see Latin America as the territory closest to the possibility of emancipatory and socially just forms of urbanization, this book is a great guide for the ongoing struggle.--Miguel Robles-Duran, The New School
This text provides an excellent, coherent, and timely overview of Latin American urban development issues. The book places Latin America in its global context and profiles a broad range of projects, cities, and countries. The contributions are all original and thought-provoking, including such rarely considered but important topics as participatory budgeting, place marketing, housing cooperatives, environmental contamination, public-private partnerships, and the many claims on `rights to the city.' -- Ray Bromley, State University of New York at Albany This important text makes an invaluable contribution to theory and practice on three fronts: (1) it advances relational, integrative, and comparative perspectives and methodological approaches to understanding urban Latin America in a neoliberal globalizing context; (2) it provides a deep critique of many crucial concepts, including urban peripheries, human rights, best practices, and informality; and (3) it outlines a forward-looking, countervailing perspective based on promising cases that have the potential to radically challenge neoliberalism in ways that may reduce inequality and strengthen democracy. -- Keith Pezzoli, University of California, San Diego This powerful text offers a much-needed critical overview of Latin America's unique urban conditions-affected by social uprisings, anti-capitalist movements, left politics, struggles for rights, and environmental confrontations. It is a masterfully curated collection of essays that not only addresses core development moments but crafts both a hopeful and dire version of what the future can look like for the more than 600 million inhabitants of the region, as well as its potential influence on the world at large. For many of us who see Latin America as the territory closest to the possibility of emancipatory and socially just forms of urbanization, this book is a great guide for the ongoing struggle. -- Miguel Robles-Duran, The New School
Author Information
Tom Angotti is professor emeritus of urban policy and planning at Hunter College and the graduate center, City University of New York.
