Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon / Edition 1

by John Browder, Brian Godfrey

Overview

Amazonia has undergone a significant urban transformation since the late 1970s. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231106559
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/16/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

JOHN O. BROWDER is associate professor of urban and regional planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

BRIAN J. GODFREY is associate professor of geography at Vassar College.

What People are Saying About This

Norman Myers

Brings into focus the entire urban dimension of environmental change in Amazonia. Read the book and you will find it enlarges your understanding of the world's last great rainforest frontier. It presents an impressive rethinking of conventional analyses of social change and regional development throughout Amazonia. A splendid publication.

— Norman Myers, author of The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future

Editorial Reviews

Rainforest Cities provides the first comprehensive analysis of the varied and volatile settlement patterns that characterise the urbanisation process in the Amazon.... a valuable contribution to regional development and environmental studies.

Anthropological Forum - David Hyndman

Rainforest Cities provides the first comprehensive analysis of the varied and volatile settlement patterns that characterise the urbanisation process in the Amazon.... a valuable contribution to regional development and environmental studies.

— David Hyndman, University of Queensland

Anthropological Forum