Synopses & Reviews
Residential segregation is a key issue for good governance in Latin American cities. The isolation of people of different social classes or ethnicities has potential political and social consequences, including differential access to and quality of education, health and other services. This volume uses the recent availability of geo-coded census data and techniques of spatial analysis to conduct the first detailed comparative examination of residential segregation in six major Latin American metropolises, with Austin, Texas, as a US comparison. It demonstrates the high degree of residential segregation of contemporary Latin American cities and discusses implications for the welfare of urban residents.
Review
"This book is a pioneering effort in its comparative approach, as it looks at both Latin American and US examples. For this reason it fills a void in this particular area of socio-economic segregation studies."--Perry Mars, Professor of Africana Studies, Wayne State University
“This book is a "must read" for anyone with a serious interest in addressing critical social policy in the context of the challenges posed by the idiosyncrasies of the Latin American urbanization process. Combining new techniques of analysis, improved data sources and a comprehensive theoretical base (not commonly found in the existing literature) with a creative inversion of the conventional line of argument, the book provides a fresh look at the role of segregation patterns on key themes of the region's social policy agenda, such as urban poverty and access to services including education and health. No doubt, this is a book that fills a critical void between land use and planning and public governance in the current Latin American urban policy debate.”--Martim Oscar Smolka, Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America and the Caribbean Program, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
“This edited volume is an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in urban studies, policy, and planning. While the literature on U.S. cities has focused on racial segregation, the book offers important lessons about urbanization and socioeconomic inequality by examining the magnitude and nature of class segregation in Latin American cities. The cross-national comparison yields theoretical and practical insights about the
role of the market and state in structuring urban space, and the consequences of spatial patterns on inequality. At the same time, the chapters reveal a fundamental tendency for socioeconomic segregation within urban society and the adverse impact on the distribution of and access to resources and phenomena that U.S. cities and Latin American cities share.”--Paul Ong, Professor at the School of Public Affairs, UCLA
Synopsis
In this volume, the authors present studies of the emerging pattern of socio-economic segregation in seven major cities of Latin America and, for inter-regional contrast, one in the United States.
About the Author
Bryan R. Roberts is Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and C.B.Smith Sr. Chair in US-Mexico Relations, Dept of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Organizing Strangers, Cities of Peasants, The Making of Citizens, the coauthored Migrants, Peasants and Entrepreneurs and various edited collections, including Rethinking Latin American Development (2005) with Charles Wood.
Robert H. Wilson is Associate Dean and Mike Hogg Professor of Urban Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico and the United States (co-author, 2008) and Public Policy and Community: Activism and Governance in Texas (editor, 1997).
Table of Contents
Residential Segregation and Governance in the Americas: An Overview--Bryan Roberts and Robert H. Wilson * PART I: Buenos Aires--Ana Lourdes Suarez and Fernando Groissman * Lima--Paul L. Peters and Emily H. Skop * Mexico City--Andrés Villarreal and Erin Hamilton * Montevideo--Ruben Kaztman and Alejandro Retamoso * Santiago--Francisco Sabatini * São Paulo--Haroldo Gama Torres and Renata Mirandola Bichir * PART II: Campina--José Marcos Pinto da Cunha, Maren Andrea Jiménez, and Elisabete Bilac * Austin--Carolina Flores and Robert H. Wilson
Residential Segregation and Governance in the Americas: An Overview * Bryan Roberts and Robert H. Wilson UT Austin, PART I: Buenos Aires -- Ana Lourdes Suarez, Fernando Groissman * Lima -- Paul L. Peters, Emily H, Skop * Mexico City -- Andrés Villarreal, Erin Hamilton * Montevideo -- Ruben Kaztman, Alejandro Retamoso * Santiago -- Francisco Sabatini * São Paulo -- Haroldo Gama Torres, Renata Mirandola Bichir, CEBRAP, Brazil, PART II: Campinas -- José Marcos Pinto da Cunha, Maren Andrea Jiménez, Elisabete Bilac * Austin -- Carolina Flores, Robert H. Wilson * Conclusions