Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
5 - Urban growth and urban social structure
from VII - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- 1 Population
- 2 The Latin American economies, 1929–1939
- 3 The Latin American economies, 1939–c. 1950
- 4 The Latin American economies, 1950–1990
- 5 Urban growth and urban social structure
- 6 Agrarian structures
- 7 State organization
- 8 Democracy
- 9 The Left
- 10 The military in politics
- 11 The urban working class and labour movements
- 12 Rural mobilizations
- 13 Women in twentieth-century Latin America
- 14 The Catholic church
- 15 The Protestant churches
- 16 Mexico, c. 1930–1946
- 17 Mexico since 1946
- 18 Central America
- 19 Guatemala
- 20 El Salvador
- 21 Honduras
- 22 Nicaragua
- 23 Costa Rica
- 24 Panama
- 25 The Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1979
- 26 Cuba, c. 1930–1959
- 27 Cuba since 1959
- 28 The Dominican Republic
- 29 Haiti
- 30 Puerto Rico
- 31 Argentina, 1930–1946
- 32 Argentina since 1946
- 33 Uruguay
- 34 Paraguay
- 35 Chile, c. 1930–c. 1960
- 36 Chile since c. 1960
- 37 Peru, 1930–c. 1960
- 38 Peru since c. 1960
- 39 Bolivia
- 40 Colombia
- 41 Ecuador
- 42 Venezuela
- 43 Brazil
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
There are few historical accounts that summarize the general processes of urbanization in Latin America or that provide histories of particular Latin American cities for the entire period since 1930. A valuable account of the early (1940s and 1950s) urbanization processes is Philip Hauser (ed.), Urbanization in Latin America (New York, 1961), which was published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), reflecting its new-found preoccupation with urban issues in developing countries. The issues covered were demographic trends, employment, economic development, migration, housing, and planning. Richard Morse, ‘Latin American cities: Aspects of function and structure, ’ CSSH, 16/4 (1962), 473–93 reviews research on urbanization in the 1950s and early 1960s, and his two-part article, ‘Trends and issues in Latin American urban research, 1965–1970, ’ LARR, 6/1 (1971), 3–52 and 6/2 (1971), 19–75 examines trends in the mid and late 1960s. An important source of information and analysis is the annual series Latin American Urban Research (Beverly Hills, Calif.), which was published from 1970 to 1976, each year having a different thematic focus, including migration, urban poverty, and metropolitanization.
From a more anthropological perspective, Douglas Butterworth and John Chance, Latin American Urbanization (Cambridge, Eng., 1981) takes account of studies carried out in the 1940s but concentrates on the 1960s and 1970s. The demographic perspective, analysing the evolution of urban primacy and the preoccupation with rapid population and urban growth in Latin America, is found in Glenn H. Beyer (ed.), The Urban Explosion in Latin America (Ithaca, N.Y., 1967). A more recent analysis of trends in city growth and urbanization is Robert W. Fox, Urban Population Trends in Latin America (Washington, D.C., 1975).
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 541 - 556Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995