Trends and Issues in Latin American Urban Research, 1965-1970

Abstract

It has for years been accepted that as Latin American countries urbanize and industrialize, the proportion of people employed in tertiary (“services”) categories relative to those in secondary (manufacturing, construction) increases more swiftly than in the nineteenth-century industrial countries. This is usually taken to mean that urbanization here “outruns” industrialization, that people are released from precarious rural occupations faster than stable secondary-sector jobs are created for them. The situation is aggravated by the introduction of advanced technology that allows high worker-output ratios and by the lack of possibilities for migration abroad such as relieved Europe of 55 million “excess” persons in the period 1750-1939. Table 5 shows that although the per cent of Latin Americans working in factories more than doubled in the period 1925-60, thus increasing much more sharply than the per cent of city dwellers, the total share employed in manufacturing barely increased at all—and in fact shaded off in the 1950s—because of a relative drop in artisans.

Finding a home away from home: Housing choices of itinerant immigrant retailers in the Wa municipality, Ghana

“…Turner (1968) admitted, however, that the model will have inadequate explanatory power in the event that housing opportunities at the city centre become unavailable due to urban regeneration programmes in inner city areas and where squatter settlements are fully mainstreamed into the city fabric (Gilbert & Ward, 1982). Gilbert and Ward (1982) have noted that studies in some Southern cities, especially in Africa and Latin America, confirmed Turner's (1968) admission and his two-stage model was deemed to provide adequate explanatory power for lowincome residential choices in the South (Afolayan, 1982;Morse, 1971). Later on, further evidence raised concerns about the validity of Turner's model when it became clear that socio-economic status rather than a household's housing priorities shape the residential location decisions of the poor (Amrith, 2015;Gilbert & Ward, 1982;Liu, 2015;Wu, 2006).…”

“Hilos y Niveles”. Proceso histórico de la institucionalización de la gestión del territorio urbano en Pereira 1871-1946

“…Una de las primeras obras panorámicas que abrió un modelo de reflexión sobre las ciudades latinoamericanas fue el trabajo del historiador norteamericano Richard M. Morse, quien interpretó la producción previa sobre los estudios urbanos en América Latina e identificó varios temas en el campo de la historia urbana. Estos iban desde el modelo de colonización hispana por medio de ciudades, hasta las migraciones internas y las relaciones entre ciudad y nación (Morse, 1971a;1971b).…”