Rainforest cities : urbanization, development, and globalization of the Brazilian Amazon / John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey.

By:

Browder, John O [author.]

Contributor(s):

Godfrey, Brian J [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0231106556 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

23 307.121609811 BRO DS1348

Contents:

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.

Review: "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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	David Satterthwaite Collection	307.121609811 BRO DS1348 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DS1348

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-399) and indexes.

"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

Gift of David Satterthwaite.

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