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Separate but equal democratization? : participation, politics, and urban segregation in Latin America
Rodgers, Dennis - 2011
effect on public space, and is therefore undermining of democracy. -- democracy ; urbanization ; segregation ; Latin America … contexts promotes a democracy of proximity. Seen from this perspective, it is perhaps not surprising that the most urbanized … particular note are the myriad local level 'radical democracy' initiatives that have proliferated throughout the region's cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903418
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Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Towards a renewed perspective on the city
Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011
This paper argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the 'fractured cities' perspective that has widely come to epitomise the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an overview...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280244
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Latin American urban development into the 21st century : towards a renewed perspective on the city
Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011
development agendas, and concludes with a call for a renewed vision of Latin American urban life. -- Latin America ; urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811158
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A comparative portrait of long-run racial disparity in the United States and Brazil
Bucciferro, Justin R. - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 84-110
The relative incomes and education-levels of Black and white populations in the United States and Brazil are considered after Abolition, and framed by earlier disparities in their natural rates of increase. For the post-World War Two period, the effects of demography, education, and regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465593
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Separate but Equal Democratization? Participation, Politics, and Urban Segregation in Latin America
Rodgers, Dennis - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
contexts promotes a democracy of proximity. Seen from this perspective, it is perhaps not surprising that the most urbanized … particular note are the myriad local level ‘radical democracy’ initiatives that have proliferated throughout the region’s cities … effect on public space, and is therefore undermining of democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862805
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Is internal migration bad for receiving urban centres? Evidence from Brazil, 1995-2000
Ferré, Céline - 2011
During the twentieth century, internal migration and urbanization shaped Brazil's economic and social landscape. Cities … grew tremendously, while immigration participated in the rapid urbanization process and the redistribution of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280124
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Challenges for Latin American cities: Improving diagnosis or the need to shift the understanding urban inequality from fixed enclaves to mobile gradients
Jirón, Paola - 2011
Current urban interventions, particularly in cities in developing countries like Santiago de Chile, evidence major neglect in understanding the way contemporary living takes place and how it is changing under processes of globalization, global warming, technological advances, as well as specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280219
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Challenges for Latin American cities : improving diagnosis or the need to shift the understanding urban inequality from fixed enclaves to mobile gradients
Jirón, Paola - 2011
Current urban interventions, particularly in cities in developing countries like Santiago de Chile, evidence major neglect in understanding the way contemporary living takes place and how it is changing under processes of globalization, global warming, technological advances, as well as specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008991478
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Racial Enclaves and Density Zoning : The Institutionalized Segregation of Racial Minorities in the United States
Rothwell, Jonathan T. - 2010
This paper attempts to explain two basic facts of segregation in the United States in recent decades. The segregation … of blacks remains everywhere higher than the segregation of Latinos and Asians, but the levels are converging. Previous … institutional force: local land regulation. Zoning increases inter-jurisdictional inequality and economic segregation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216538
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Significance of public space in the fragmented city: Designing strategies for urban opportunities in informal settlements of Buenos Aires city
Janches, Flavio - 2011
This article surveys the problem of urban marginalization by one of its more critical expressions in the contemporary city: the slums. The aim is to define an urban design strategy for the integration of those settlements as part of the city context, which enables to find solutions for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280195