Title New World cities : challenges of urbanization and globalization in the Americas / edited by John Tutino and Martin V. Melosi

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents The Americas in the twentieth-century world: challenges of urbanization and globalization / John Tutino -- Power, marginality, and participation in Mexico City, 1870-2000 / John Tutino -- The arc of formality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro / Bryan McCann -- Boom, echo, and splinter: citizenship and growth in Greater Buenos Aires / Mark Healey -- Montreal in the twentieth century: trajectories of a city under strains / Michèle Dagenais -- Generations of segregation: immigrant dreams and segregated lives in metropolitan Los Angeles / George J. Sanchez -- Energy capital and opportunity city: Houston in the twentieth century / Joseph a. Pratt and Martin V. Melosi -- Spatial, temporal, and institutional influences in New World cities / Martin V. Melosi Summary "For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody. New World Cities looks at six metropolises during the twentieth century--Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston--exploring the challenges of explosive urbanization and the gains and limits of popular politics"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Urbanization -- Political aspects -- America Globalization -- Political aspects -- America Globalization -- Social aspects -- America SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) Civilization Globalization -- Political aspects Globalization -- Social aspects Politics and government Urbanization -- Political aspects SUBJECT America -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004228 America -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004279 Subject America Form Electronic book Author Tutino, John, 1947- editor. Melosi, Martin V., 1947- editor. ISBN 9781469648767 1469648768 9781469648774 1469648776

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