Cities, Poverty and Development Urbanization in the Third World |
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| Author:
| Gilbert, Alan
Gugler, Josef |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-874161-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1992 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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This study presents a comprehensive account of Third World urbanization by reaching across disciplinary boundaries and regional specializations. The book does not aim to be neutral in its review of different ideas and strategies and is sometimes provocative. It reviews and criticizes the principal ideas relating to development and urbanization drawing on both liberal and Marxist perspectives in an effort to relate urban phenomena to the process of development in an unequal world. At...
More DescriptionThis study presents a comprehensive account of Third World urbanization by reaching across disciplinary boundaries and regional specializations. The book does not aim to be neutral in its review of different ideas and strategies and is sometimes provocative. It reviews and criticizes the principal ideas relating to development and urbanization drawing on both liberal and Marxist perspectives in an effort to relate urban phenomena to the process of development in an unequal world. At the same time it is cognizant of the fact that major economic and cultural differences exist within the Third World: because these variations are so great it argues that no single response to the urbanization process can be devised.