New World Cities
Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas
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 around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars look at the similar but nevertheless divergent courses taken by Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston in the twentieth century, attending to the challenges of rapid growth, the gains and limits of popular politics, and the profound…
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Weitere Autoren: Tutino, John (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4696-4874-3
- EAN: 9781469648743
- Produktnummer: 28776271
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.4 cm 715 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 715
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