New World cities challenges of urbanization and globalization in the Americas /
"For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly ev...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2019.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : urbanizing history in globalizing times / John Tutino
- 1. The Americas in the twentieth-century world : challenges of urbanization and globalization / John Tutino
- 2. Power, marginality, and participation in Mexico City, 1870-2000 / John Tutino
- 3. The arc of formality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro / Bryan McCann
- 4. Boom, echo, and splinter : citizenship and growth in Greater Buenos Aires / Mark Healey
- 5. Montreal in the twentieth century : trajectories of a city under strains / Michèle Dagenais
- 6. Generations of segregation : immigrant dreams and segregated lives in metropolitan Los Angeles / George J. Sanchez
- 7. Energy capital and opportunity city : Houston in the twentieth century / Joseph A. Pratt and Martin V. Melosi
- Epilogue : spatial, temporal, and institutional influences in New World cities / Martin V. Melosi.