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Latino Urbanism : The Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment /

The nation's Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15% of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portion of the world's population now lives and works in cities that are increasingly diverse. Latino Urbanism provides the first national perspecti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Torres, Rodolfo D., 1949- (Editor ), Diaz, David R., 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / David R. Diaz, Rodolfo D. Torres
  • Barrios and planning ideology: the failure of suburbia and the dialectics of new urbanism / David R. Diaz
  • Aesthetic belonging: the Latinization and renewal of Union City, New Jersey / Johana Londoño
  • Placing barrios in housing policy / Kee Warner
  • Urban redevelopment and Mexican American barrios in the socio-spatial order / Nestor Rodriguez
  • A pair of queens: la reina de Los Angeles, the Queen City of Charlotte, and the New (Latin) American south / Jose L.S. Gámez
  • Fostering diversity: lessons from integration in public housing / Silvia Domínguez
  • Mexican Americans and environmental justice: change and continuity in Mexican American politics / Benjamin Marquez
  • After Latino metropolis: cultural political economy and alternative futures / Victor Valle, Rodolfo D. Torres.