Research Catalog

Title

Urbanization in Latin America : proceedings. / edited by Philip M. Hauser.

Author

Seminar on Urbanization Problems in Latin America (1959 : Santiago de Chile)

Publication

New York : International Documents Service, 1961.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hauser, Philip M., 1909-1994.

Description

331 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

And conclusions. Rapporteur's report -- Conclusions of the seminar -- Selected seminar papers. Demographic aspects of urbanization in Latin America / Population branch, Bureau of Social Affairs, United Nations -- Creation of employment opportunities in relation to labour supply / Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Latin America -- Relationships between economic development, industrialization and the growth of urban population in Brazil / Thomas Pompeu Accioly Borges -- Migration and urbanization : the "barriadas" of Lima, an example of integration into urban life / J. Matos Mar -- Some characteristics of urbanization in the city of Rio de Janeiro / Andrew Pearse -- Inquiry into the social effects of urbanization in a working class sector of greater Buenos Aires / Gino Germani -- Aspects of the adjustment of rural migrants to urban industrial conditions in Saõ Paulo, Brazil / Juarez Rubens Brandão Lopes -- Psychological and mental health problems of urbanization based on case studies in Peru / H. Rotondo -- Problems confronting the city planner and administrator in the town of Esmereldas, Ecuador / Gonzalo Rubio Orbe, Reinaldo Torres Caicedo, Alfredo Costales -- Urbanization and physical planning in Peru / Luis Dorich T. -- Some policy implications of urbanization / Bureau of Social Affairs of the United Nations

Series Statement

Technology and society series

Uniform Title

Technology and society series (Unesco)

Subject

• Urbanization > Latin America
• Urbanization
• Cities and towns > Latin America
• Employment and unemployment > Latin America
• Housing > Latin America
• Migration > Latin America
• Population > Latin America
• Social conditions > Latin America
• Latin America

Note

• "Jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Social Affairs of the United Nations, the Economic Commission for Latin America, and Unesco in co-operation with the International Labour Organisation and the Organization of American States."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

LCCN

62002612

OCLC

• ocm11277145
• 11277145
• SCSB-8936058

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library