The mega-city in Latin America / edited by Alan Gilbert.
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TextPublication details: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585200246
- 9780585200248
- Lateinamerika
- Metropolitan areas -- Latin America
- Cities and towns -- Latin America
- Agglom�erations urbaines -- Am�erique latine
- Villes -- Am�erique latine
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General
- Cities and towns
- Metropolitan areas
- Latin America
- Wachstum
- Metropole
- Steden
- Stedelijk beleid
- �Areas metropolitanas -- Am�erica latina
- Cidades -- Am�erica latina
- Agglom�erations urbaines -- Am�erique latine
- Villes -- Am�erique latine
- Lateinamerika
- CITIES
- METROPOLITAN AREAS
- URBAN POPULATION
- POPULATION GROWTH
- HOUSING
- URBAN TRANSPORT
- URBAN SETTLEMENTS
- POPULATION DENSITY
- URBAN ECONOMICS
- URBAN ENVIRONMENT
- STATISTICAL DATA
- Communities - Urban Groups
- Sociology & Social History
- Social Sciences
- 338.98 21
- HT334.L29 M436 1996eb
- 74.72
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Latin American mega-city : an introduction / Alan Gilbert -- Demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises, 1950-1990 / Miguel Villa and Jorge Rodr�iguez -- 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 Riofr�io -- Mexico City : no longer a leviathan? / Allison Rowland and Peter Gordon -- Rio de Janeiro : urban expansion and structural change / Hamilton Tolosa -- S�ao Paulo : a growth process full of contradictions / Milton Santos -- Santa F�e de Bogot�a : a Latin American special case? / Alan Gilbert.
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