Latino urbanism : the politics of planning, policy, and redevelopment /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Diaz, David R., 1951- (Editor), Torres, Rodolfo D., 1949- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Series:Democracy and urban landscapes.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
City planning > United States.
Hispanic American neighborhoods.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Quartiers hispaniques.
barrios (neighborhoods)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
City planning
Hispanic American neighborhoods
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 / José 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.

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