The mega-city in Latin America
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The mega-city in Latin America
(UNUP, 935)
United Nations University Press, c1996
Available at 33 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By the year 2010, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more then eight million people. Their combined population will be over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those five cities. The sheer number of people living in these mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst symptoms of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shanty towns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of air and water pollution, and serious levels of traffic congestion. This book is about the prospects for their future.
Table of Contents
- The Latin American mega-city - an introduction
- demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises
- contemporary issues in the government and administration of Latin America mega-cities
- land, housing and infrastructure in Latin America's major cities
- 100 million journeys a day - the management of transport in Latin America's mega-cities
- Beunos Aires - a case for deepening social polarization
- Lima - mega-city and mega-problem
- Mexico City - no longer a leviathan?
- Rio de Janeiro - urban expansion and change
- Sao Paulo - a growth process full of contradictions
- Santa Fe de Bogota - a Latin American special case?
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