TY  - BOOK
AU  - Browder,John O.
AU  - Godfrey,Brian J.
TI  - Rainforest cities : : urbanization, development, and globalization of the Brazilian Amazon / 
SN  - 0231106556 (pbk.)
U1  - 307.121609811 BRO 23
PY  - 1997///.
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - City planning
KW  - Amazon River Region.
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - Amazon River Region
KW  - Land use, Rural
KW  - Land settlement patterns
KW  - Economic history.
KW  - Social conditions.
KW  - Economic conditions.
N1  - 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.
N2  - "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
ER  -