The Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change

ISBN-13: 9781138273047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Robert B. Potter

Opis

Based on the author’s first-hand field research, this book addresses the twin processes of urbanization and globalization as they affect the contemporary Caribbean region.

Recenzje

’This is an accessible text for the non-specialist reader and yet offers unique insight into a particular region’s experience of urban growth and development, and hence is of use to the urban specialist...The text makes a significant intervention in discussions about urban processes and structures existent in the world. It demonstrates continuities and differences within the Caribbean, validating it as a region worthy of study...’ Urban Studies ’This latest Potter book will be on my course reading list, that is for sure.’ Urban Geography

Spis treści

Contents: Urbanization and development in the Caribbean: an overview; Towards a framework for the consideration of Caribbean urbanization and urban settlement systems; Global change and Caribbean urbanization: global convergence and global divergence; Tourism, post-modernity and the Caribbean urban imperative; Globalization, environment and urban development in the Caribbean; Housing conditions and the role of the state in the Eastern Caribbean; Environmental impacts of urban development and the urban informal sector in the Caribbean; Caribbean urban futures; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Robert B. Potter