Beyond the megacity : new dimensions of peripheral urbanization in Latin America /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Global suburbanisms.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
- PART 1 Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
- 1 Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South
- 2 Urban Community and Resistance
- 3 Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America
- PART 2 Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism
- 4 Large-Scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in the Production of Urban Space in the Mexico City Megaregion
- 5 Peri-urban Megaprojects in Santiago de Chile: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle- Class Dwellers
- 6 Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery
- PART 3 Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins
- 7 The Self-Built City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima's Hybrid Peripheries
- 8 Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte
- 9 Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-urban Bolivia
- 10 Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas
- PART 4 Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes
- 11 Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador
- 12 Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile
- 13 Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras: Unveiling Abstract Space in Yucatán, Mexico
- 14 Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil
- 15 The Urbanization of Mexico's Countryside: A Socio-political Approach to Spatial Transformation
- Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theo
- Contributors
- Index