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New World cities : challenges of urbanization and globalization in the Americas / edited by John Tutino and Martin V. Melosi.

Other author/creatorTutino, John, 1947- editor.
Other author/creatorMelosi, Martin V., 1947- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Descriptionxii, 329 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents The Americas in the twentieth-century world: challenges of urbanization and globalization / John Tutino -- Power, marginality, and participation in Mexico City, 1870-2000 / John Tutino -- The arc of formality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro / Bryan McCann -- Boom, echo, and splinter: citizenship and growth in Greater Buenos Aires / Mark Healey -- Montreal in the twentieth century: trajectories of a city under strains / Michèle Dagenais -- Generations of segregation: immigrant dreams and segregated lives in metropolitan Los Angeles / George J. Sanchez -- Energy capital and opportunity city: Houston in the twentieth century / Joseph a. Pratt and Martin V. Melosi -- Spatial, temporal, and institutional influences in New World cities / Martin V. Melosi.
Abstract "For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody. New World Cities looks at six metropolises during the twentieth century--Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston--exploring the challenges of explosive urbanization and the gains and limits of popular politics"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2018031798
ISBN9781469648743 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN1469648741 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN9781469648750 paperback alkaline paper
ISBN146964875X paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

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