Beyond the megacity : new dimensions of peripheral urbanization in Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reis, Nadine (Editor), Lukas, Michael (Geographer) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
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