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• Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 1998

Gilbert (geography, University College, London) examines the reasons for and consequences of the mass movement from country to city and the enormous strain placed on the infrastructure and services of

• Publisher : UN
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 2024

With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region on the planet. Located here are some of the largest and best-known cities,

• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 May 2010

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 October 2012

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• File Size : 52,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 2024

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not

• Publisher : Verso Books
• File Size : 55,8 Mb
• Release Date : 13 October 2015

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick

• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 July 2009

In City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative practices continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America. The contributors, all Latin Americanists,

• Publisher : University Press of Florida
• File Size : 22,8 Mb
• Release Date : 10 August 2016

Shaping Terrain shows how the physical landscape and local ecology have influenced human settlement and built form in Latin America since pre-Columbian times. Most urban centers and capitals of Latin

• Publisher : Getty Publications
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 August 2021

This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In

• Publisher : Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 18 June 2024

El lector encontrará estudios sobre morfología, infraestructuras o nuevas formas de crecimiento urbano en distintas ciudades de Brasil, México, Argentina y Perú, heredero de las grandes civilizacions precolombinas