Rainforest cities : urbanization, development, and globalization of the Brazilian Amazon /
Browder, John O.,
Rainforest cities : urbanization, development, and globalization of the Brazilian Amazon / John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey. - xxvi, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-399) and indexes.
1. Amazon Town Revisited: New Urban Realities on Brazil's Rainforest Frontier -- 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Frontier Urbanization: Toward an Urban Systems Approach -- 3. Geopolitics, Regional Development, and Urbanization: Historical Dynamics of Amazon Frontier Expansion -- 4. A Pluralistic Theory of Disarticulated Urbanization -- 5. Metropolitan Centers in Amazonia: Regional Cities and Urban Primacy -- 6. Crossroads of the Dawn: Urbanization of Rondonia's Populist Frontier -- 7. Instant Cities of Southern Para: Urbanization of a Contested Corporatist Frontier -- 8. Migration, Social Mobility, and Income Generation in Urban Amazonia -- 9. Frontier Urbanization in the Global Periphery: Regional Disarticulation and Surplus Extraction -- 10. Frontier Urbanization and Environmental Change in Amazonia -- 11. Patterns of Development and Urbanization on the Global Periphery.
"Comprehensive and useful analysis of region's urbanization process. Compares eastern and western segments, and illustrates heterogeneity of urban frontier. Concludes that current theories of urbanization are inappropriate for Amazonian cities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
0231106556 (pbk.)
City planning --Amazon River Region.
Regional planning --Amazon River Region.
Land use, Rural --Amazon River Region.
Land settlement patterns --Amazon River Region.
City planning.
Economic history.
Amazon River Region --Social conditions.
Amazon River Region --Economic conditions.
307.121609811 BRO / DS1348
Rainforest cities : urbanization, development, and globalization of the Brazilian Amazon / John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey. - xxvi, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-399) and indexes.
1. Amazon Town Revisited: New Urban Realities on Brazil's Rainforest Frontier -- 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Frontier Urbanization: Toward an Urban Systems Approach -- 3. Geopolitics, Regional Development, and Urbanization: Historical Dynamics of Amazon Frontier Expansion -- 4. A Pluralistic Theory of Disarticulated Urbanization -- 5. Metropolitan Centers in Amazonia: Regional Cities and Urban Primacy -- 6. Crossroads of the Dawn: Urbanization of Rondonia's Populist Frontier -- 7. Instant Cities of Southern Para: Urbanization of a Contested Corporatist Frontier -- 8. Migration, Social Mobility, and Income Generation in Urban Amazonia -- 9. Frontier Urbanization in the Global Periphery: Regional Disarticulation and Surplus Extraction -- 10. Frontier Urbanization and Environmental Change in Amazonia -- 11. Patterns of Development and Urbanization on the Global Periphery.
"Comprehensive and useful analysis of region's urbanization process. Compares eastern and western segments, and illustrates heterogeneity of urban frontier. Concludes that current theories of urbanization are inappropriate for Amazonian cities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
0231106556 (pbk.)
City planning --Amazon River Region.
Regional planning --Amazon River Region.
Land use, Rural --Amazon River Region.
Land settlement patterns --Amazon River Region.
City planning.
Economic history.
Amazon River Region --Social conditions.
Amazon River Region --Economic conditions.
307.121609811 BRO / DS1348