Title & Author:

Urbanization and inequality : the political economy of urban and rural development in Latin America / Wayne A. Cornelius and Felicity M. Trueblood, editors.

Publication:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1975]
©1975

Description:

316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Latin American urban research ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
pt. 1. Urbanization and uneven development -- pt. 2. Rural-urban interface -- pt. 3. Political economy of urban poverty -- pt. 4. Public policies as determinants of urban growth and rural-urban inequities -- pt. 5. Regional development programs and rural-urban inequalities.
Introduction / Wayne A. Cornelius -- Part I. Urbanization and uneven development -- Internal colonialism: problems of definition and measurement / John Walton -- Part II. Rural-urban interface Urbanization in Mexico: the view from Tzintzuntzan / Robert V. Kemper and George M. Foster -- Center and periphery in the development process: the case of Peru / Bryan R. Roberts -- Part III. Political economy of urban poverty -- "Tertiarization" and urban poverty in Latin America / Lisa R. Peattie -- The political economy of lower class areas in Mexico City: societal constraints on local business prospects / Susan Eckstein -- Housing finance in Brazil: towards a new distribution of wealth / Clark W. Reynolds and Robert T. Carpenter -- Housing the urban poor in Chile: contrasting experiences under "Christian democracy" and "Unidad popular" / Eduardo E. Lozano -- Part IV. Public policies as determinants of urban growth and rural-urban inequities -- Urban growth policy in Brazil: intended and accidental / Joel Bergsman -- Political economy and the management of urban development in Brazil / John J. Harrigan -- Public policy and regional incomes in Peru / Richard Webb -- Part V. Regional development programs and rural-urban inequalities -- Urban and regional development programs in Columbia since 1951 / Alan Gilbert -- Regional development and interregional equity: a Mexican case study / David Barkin -- The regional strategy of "Unidad popular" in Chile / Eduardo E. Lozano.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Library copy: in ms., "Joan Miller, Montreal, June 1976."

Summary:

Monographic compilation of essays on the disparity between urbanization and rural development in Latin America - illustrates the manner in which government policies have either deliberately or unwittingly influenced social change in the form of unequal geographic distribution of population and unequal income distribution, and assesses governments' efforts to reduce the inequities caused by urban industrial development, etc. References and statistical tables.

ISBN:

0803904371
9780803904378
0803906021 (pbk.)
9780803906020 (pbk.)

Subject:

Lateinamerika
Urbanization Latin America.
Regional planning Latin America.
Equality Economic aspects Latin America.
Poor Latin America.
Urbanization.
Poor.
Regional planning.
Poverty.
Urbanisation.
Pauvres.
Aménagement du territoire.
Urbanisation Amérique latine.
Aménagement du territoire Amérique latine.
Pauvres Amérique latine.
Pauvreté.
urbanization.
regional planning.
poverty.
Equality Economic aspects
Verstädterung
rural development.
government policy.
social change.
geographic distribution.
population.
income distribution.
industrial development.
statistical table.
Urban policy Latin America.
urbanisation.
développement rural.
politique gouvernementale.
changement social.
distribution géographique.
répartition du revenu.
développement industriel.
tableau statistique.
urbanización.
desarrollo rural.
política gubernamental.
cambio social.
distribución geográfica.
población.
distribución del ingreso.
desarrollo industrial.
cuadros estadísticos.
Latin America
Amérique latine.
América Latina.

Form/genre:

reference.
référence bibliographique.
referencia.

Added entries:

Cornelius, Wayne A., 1945-
Trueblood, Felicity M.
Provenance. Miller, Joan. Autograph.
Autographs. Miller, Joan.
Latin American urban research ; v. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221698
Call No.: HT127.5 .U7 1975
Status: External loan