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Latin American Cities: Aspects of Function and Structure*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Richard M. Morse
Richard M. Morse
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Yale University
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This essay will advance two interrelated hypotheses about the Latin American city. The first of them has to do with the role of the city in the settlement of the New World. The second suggests certain characteristics of the modern Latin American metropolis.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , July 1962 , pp. 473 - 493
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1962

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