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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Urban Latin America: The Political Condition from Above and Below

Urban Latin America: The Political Condition from Above and Below

Portes, Alejandro
Walton, John

Paperback

Series: Texas Pan American

General Latin American HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0292729618
ISBN13: 9780292729612
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Mar 1 1976
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areas--planning, demography, or economics--and has emphasized either power elites or the masses, but not both. The published literature on Latin America has reflected these interests and has so far failed to provide a comprehensive view of Latin American urbanization. Urban Latin America is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem. Alejandro Portes and John Walton have included material on both elites and marginal populations and on the three major areas of research in order to formulate and address some of the key questions about the structure of urban politics in Latin America.

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