Urban Planning for Latin America (Book)

The Challenge of Metropolitan Growth

Author(s): Violich, Francis with Robert Daughters
Publication Date: March 1987

$10.00; 435 pages; Inventory ID 213-8; English; Hardcover; ISBN 1-55844-213-8

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Abstract

The radical increase in the scale of human settlement in Latin American cities causes social distress and physical development problems that frustrate urban planners’ efforts to guide growth and improve the human environment. The authors offer an historical and comparative perspective on urban planning in the region and suggest how innovative urban policies could have a positive role in solving the problems caused by rapid population growth and urbanization.