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Title The mega-city in Latin America / edited by Alan Gilbert
Published Tokyo : United Nations University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The Latin American mega-city : an introduction / Alan Gilbert -- Demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises, 1950-1990 / Miguel Villa and Jorge Rodríguez -- 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 Riofrío -- Mexico City : no longer a leviathan? / Allison Rowland and Peter Gordon -- Rio de Janeiro : urban expansion and structural change / Hamilton Tolosa -- São Paulo : a growth process full of contradictions / Milton Santos -- Santa Fé de Bogotá : a Latin American special case? / Alan Gilbert
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Metropolitan areas -- Latin America
Cities and towns -- Latin America
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
Wachstum
Metropole
Steden.
Stedelijk beleid.
Áreas metropolitanas -- América latina.
Cidades -- América latina.
Agglomérations urbaines -- Amérique latine.
Villes -- Amérique latine.
CITIES.
METROPOLITAN AREAS.
URBAN POPULATION.
POPULATION GROWTH.
HOUSING.
URBAN TRANSPORT.
URBAN SETTLEMENTS.
POPULATION DENSITY.
URBAN ECONOMICS.
URBAN ENVIRONMENT.
STATISTICAL DATA.
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Form Electronic book
Author Gilbert, Alan, 1944-
United Nations University.
ISBN 0585200246
9780585200248