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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.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 458
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
16 July 1997
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231106559
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
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
— David Hyndman, University of Queensland
JOHN O. BROWDER is associate professor of urban and regional planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
BRIAN J. GODFREY is associate professor of geography at Vassar College.