challenges of urbanization and globalization in the Americas /
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edited by John Tutino and Martin V. Melosi.
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Chapel Hill :
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University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2019]
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1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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"--
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22573/ctvckwh5c
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Title
New World cities.
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9781469648743
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Globalization-- Political aspects-- America.
Globalization-- Social aspects-- America.
Urbanization-- Political aspects-- America.
Civilization.
Globalization-- Political aspects.
Globalization-- Social aspects.
HISTORY-- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)