Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century

Rodgers, D.|Beall, J.|Kanbur, R.

ISBN 10: 134935077X / ISBN 13: 9781349350773

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012

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• Titolo: Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 134935077X
• ISBN 13: 9781349350773
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.

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DENNIS RODGERS is Professor of Urban Social and Political Research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He was previously a senior research fellow in the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester, UK, where he led their programme on Urban Poverty and Conflict.
 
JO BEALL is Director of Education and Society at UNU-WIDER, and member of the executive board of the British Council. She was formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, prior to which she was a professor of development studies at the London School of Economics, UK.

RAVI KANBUR is T.H Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA. He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank, including as Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist at the World Bank. He has also served as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report.