| Description |
xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alan Gilbert -- The building of Latin American cities / Jorge E. Hardoy -- Regional urbanization and agricultural production in Argentina : a comparative analysis / Jorge Balán -- Working in the streets : survival strategy, necessity, or unavoidable evil? / Ray Bromley -- Low-income housing and the state / Alan Gilbert and Peter Ward -- Cities of tenants : renting among the urban poor in Latin America / Michael Edwards -- A home of one's own : squatter housing strategies in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline O.N. Moser -- Who should do what about housing? / John F.C. Turner -- The law and home ownership in the barrios of Caracas / Rogelio Pérez Perdomo and Pedro Nikken -- Urban renewal and expulsion in São Paulo / Richard Batley -- Regional development policies in Mexico / Luis Unikel |
| Analysis |
Latin America Urbanisation |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Housing policy -- Latin America.
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Social classes -- Latin America.
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Social conflict -- Latin America.
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Social conflict.
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Urban policy -- Latin America.
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116003
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| Author |
Gilbert, Alan, 1944-
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Hardoy, Jorge Enrique.
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Ramírez, Ronaldo.
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| LC no. |
81021876 |
| ISBN |
0471101834 |
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