Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas

ISBN-13: 9780815378808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 394 str.

David Drakakis-Smith

Opis

Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development.

Spis treści

Introduction: Urbanization, Economic Development, and Space  1. Dependent Urbanization in the Contemporary Semi-Periphery: Deepening the Analogy  2. ‘Anteroom to a Madhouse’: Economic Growth and Urban Development in Barcelona in the Franco Era  3. Urbanization at the Periphery: Reflections on the Changing Dynamics of Housing and Employment in Latin American Cities  4. Industrialization and Household Response: A Case Study of Penang  5. The Acceptable Face of Self-Help Housing: Subletting in Fiji Squatter Settlements – Exploitation or Survival Strategy?  6. The Built Environment and Social Movements in the Semi-Periphery: Urban Housing Provision in the Northern Territory of Australia  7. Upgrading the ‘Matchboxes’: Urban Renewal in Soweto, 1976-86  8. Economic Considerations on the Renovation of the Historic Centre of Salvador (Bahia), Brazil  9. Temporary Trading for Temporary People: The Making of Hawking in Soweto  10. Consumerism, the State, and the Informal Sector: Shebeens in South Africa’s Black Townships  11. The Last Frontier: The Emergence of the Industrial Palate in Hong Kong  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

David Drakakis-Smith