Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon

by JOBrowder (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $62.90

  This is the first comprehensive analysis of urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on comparative household and sectoral survey research, the authors find that the growth of Amazon cities fits no single current theory of urbanization; instead they propose a pluralistic theory of disarticulated urbanization to explain the region's varied and volatile settlement patterns.