Synopses & Reviews
This new gathering of essays stands as an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the urban experience in the developing areas of the globe. Twenty-nine contributors--established experts on urbanization from the fields of anthropology, architecture, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology--offer general reviews and case studies, many comparative in time or space.
While Gugler's earlier collection is arranged by region, this book is organized in terms of the principal issues in urbanization: development theory and policy, rural-to-urban migration, urban employment structures, forms of social integration and control, the housing question, and the local and national politics played out in the urban arena. Cities of the Developing World offers much to those interested in the research of burgeoning cities, as well as those curious about how such research can best be reported, evaluated, and examined.
Synopsis
This collection of essays offers an authoritative and up-to-date textbook overview of the urban experience in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The twenty-nine contributors, leading experts across the social sciences, provide twenty-four case studies grouped around six main issues: development theory and policy as they pertain to urbanization, rural-urban migration, urban employment structures, forms of social integration and control, the housing question, and urban politics. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible account of the burgeoning cities of the "South."
About the Author
The editor, Josef Gugler, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Previously he served as Director of Sociological Research at the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Uganda. His research has taken him to Cuba, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zaire.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I Development Theory and Policy
1. Urbanization, Economic Growth, and Women's Labour Force Participation: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment
2. The Rise and Demise of Urban-Biased Development Policies in Africa
Part II Rural-Urban Migration
3. Changing Migration Strategies in Deccan Maharashtra, India: 1885-1990
4. Life in a Dual System Revisited: Urban-Rural Ties in Enugu, Nigeria, 1961-1987
5. Amerindian Migration in Peru and Mexico
6. Public Policy and Rural-Urban Migration
Part III
7. Overurbanization Reconsidered
8. Working in the Streets: Survival Strategy, Necessity or Unavoidable Evil?
9. The Saga of a Jakarta Street Trader and Her Family
10. How Men and Women Got By and Still Get By (Only Not So Well): The Gender Division of Labour in a Nairobi Shantytown
11. Gender Divisions in Brazilian Industry
12. Confronting Child Labour: A Gradualist Approach
Part IV Social Organization in the City
13. The Social and Economic Organization of a Mexican Shantytown
14. Marital Power Dynamics: Women Providers and Working-Class Households in Istanbul
15. Social Policy Transforms the Family: The Case of Singapore
16. Social Transformations of Metropolitan China Since 1949
Part V Housing and the Environment
17. Building the Future City
18. Self-Help Approaches to the Provision of Housing: The Long Debate and a Few Lessons
19. The Stae and Housing Policies in Chile: Five Regime Types and Strategies
Part VI Patterns of Political Integration and Conflict
20. `Tribalism and Political Violence in South Africa
21. Political Bosses and Strong-Arm Retainers in the Sunni Muslim Quarters in Beirut, 1943-1992
22. The Politics of Political Conformity in Mexico City Revisited: When, How, and Why it Breaks Down
23. The Social Context of Citizenship in Latin America
24. The New Labour Movement in Brazil
25. Popular Mobilization Under the Military Regime in Chile: Fron Invisible Transition to Political Democratization
Index