Rainforest Cities
Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon
Brian Godfrey author John Browder author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Published:24th Jul '97
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Amazonia has undergone a significant urban transformation since the late 1970s. This is the first comprehensive analysis of urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on comparative household and sectoral survey research, the authors find that the growth of Amazon cities fits no single current theory of urbanization; instead they propose a pluralistic theory of "disarticulated urbanization" to explain the region's varied and volatile settlement patterns.
Rainforest Cities provides the first comprehensive analysis of the varied and volatile settlement patterns that characterise the urbanisation process in the Amazon... a valuable contribution to regional development and environmental studies. -- David Hyndman, University of Queensland Anthropological Forum
ISBN: 9780231106559
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424 pages