New World Cities : Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas /

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"For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody. New Worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Melosi, Martin V., 1947- (Editor ), Tutino, John, 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urbanization > Political aspects.
Politics and government.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Globalization > Political aspects.
Civilization.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Mondialisation > Aspect social > Amerique.
Mondialisation > Aspect politique > Amerique.
Urbanisation > Aspect politique > Amerique.
Globalization > Social aspects > America.
Globalization > Political aspects > America.
Urbanization > Political aspects > America.
America.
Amerique > Politique et gouvernement.
Amerique > Civilisation.
America > Politics and government.
America > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Americas in the twentieth-century world: challenges of urbanization and globalization / John Tutino
  • Power, marginality, and participation in Mexico City, 1870-2000 / John Tutino
  • The arc of formality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro / Bryan McCann
  • Boom, echo, and splinter: citizenship and growth in Greater Buenos Aires / Mark Healey
  • Montreal in the twentieth century: trajectories of a city under strains / Michele Dagenais
  • Generations of segregation: immigrant dreams and segregated lives in metropolitan Los Angeles / George J. Sanchez
  • Energy capital and opportunity city: Houston in the twentieth century / Joseph a. Pratt and Martin V. Melosi
  • Spatial, temporal, and institutional influences in New World cities / Martin V. Melosi.

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