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'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very readable book, containing a lot of well documented information The book is especially relevant for interested lay people but many professionals will benefit from having a copy on the bookshelf' Third World Planning Revi

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Urbanization in the Americas -- PART ONE: CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS PAPERS -- The Selected Papers: An Overview -- SECTION ONE: METHOD AND THEORY -- Prehistoric -- The City and the Origin of the State in America -- Cause, Effect, and the Anthropological Study of Urbanism -- Colonial -- The Scale and Functions of Spanish American Cities Around 1600: An Essay on Methodology -- An Introduction to the Study of Provisioning in the Colonial City -- Independence and Modem -- The Influence of the Historical Process on External Dependency in the Restructuring of Present-Day Regional and Urban Networks -- Some Problematics of the Tertiarization Process in Latin America -- SECTION TWO: COMPARATIVE STUDIES -- Prehistoric -- The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared -- Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era -- A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Evolution of Cuzco and Tenochtitlán -- Colonial -- European Urban Forms in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Their Utilization in Latin America -- Urban Preeminence and the Urban System in Colonial America -- The Colonial City as a Center for the Spread of Architectural and Pictorial Schools -- Independence and Modern -- Cities and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: The Illustrative Case of Brazil -- Services in the Contemporary Latin American City: The Case of Chile -- SECTION THREE: CASE STUDIES -- The Internal Structure of Cities in America: Pre-Columbian Cities -- The Case of Tenochtitlán -- Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America -- Military Influence in the Cities of the Kingdom of Chile -- The Urban Center as a Focus of Migration in the Colonial Period: New Spain.

Despite four decades of development planning, at least one third of the urban population of Africa, Asia and Latin America remains poor. Over 600 million live in 'life and health threatening' homes and neighbourhoods because of poor housing and inadequate or no piped water, sanitation and health care. But even as the shortcomings of government and development programmes become more apparent, so do the untapped abilities of low-income groups and their community organizations to develop their own solutions.This book analyses the conditions necessary for successful community initiatives and inclu

Le monde actuel comporte plusieurs indices qui inclinent au pessimisme en ce qui concerne son avenir. Ces indices nous montrent un monde menacé par la pauvreté, l'exclusion, la faim et les maladies. Le modèle du monde latino-américain, élaboré par la fondation Bariloche de 1972 à 1975 et publié il y a déjà plus de 30 ans, indiquait une avenue possible vers un monde meilleur, plus équitable, favorisant la pleine participation des individus et une consommation éclairée. Ce modèle se voulait la réponse d'un groupe de penseurs au message contenu dans le modèle proposé au MIT Halte à la croissance