By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented

"With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region on the planet. Located here are some of the largest a

About half of the region's poor live in cities, and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programmes

During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America’s twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relations