Research Catalog

Title

Violence and resilience in Latin American cities / edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt.

Publication

• London : Zed Books, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Koonings, Kees
• Kruijt, Dirk

Description

xi, 195 pages; 22 cm

Subjects

• Law enforcement > Latin America > Case studies
• Crime > Latin America > Case studies
• Violence > Latin America > Case studies
• Resilience (Personality trait) > Latin America > Case studies
• Local government > Latin America > Case studies
• Public safety > Latin America > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-186) and index.

Contents

Urban fragility and resilience in Latin America : conceptual approaches and contemporary patterns / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt -- Exclusion, violence and resilience in five Latin American megacities : a comparison of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- Caracas : from heaven's branch to urban hell / Roberto Briceño-León -- Bogotá : countering violence with urban government / Alan Gilbert -- San Salvador : violence and resilience in gangland : coping with the code of the street / Wim Savenije and Christ van der Borth -- San José : urban expansion, violence and resilience / Abelardo Morales Gamboa -- Kingston : violence and resilience / Rivke Jaffe -- Santo Domingo : criminogenic violence and resilience / Lilian Bobea.

Call Number

JFD 16-2284

ISBN

• 1780324561
• 9781780324562
• 9781780324579
• 178032457X

OCLC

928640483

Title

Violence and resilience in Latin American cities / edited by Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt.

Publisher

London : Zed Books, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-186) and index.

Added Author

Koonings, Kees, editor.

Kruijt, Dirk, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-2284