Author: Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816514410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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From Matamoros to Tijuana, Mexican border cities have long evoked for their neighbors to the north images of cheap tourist playgrounds and, more recently, industrial satellites of American industry. These sensationalized and simplified perceptions fail to convey the complexity and diversity of urban form and function—and of cultural personality—that characterize these places. The Mexican Border Cities draws on extensive field research to examine eighteen settlements along the 2,000-mile border, ranging from towns of less than 10,000 people to dynamic metropolises of nearly a million. The authors chronicle the cities' growth and compare their urban structure, analyzing them in terms of tourist districts, commercial landscapes, residential areas, and industrial and transportation quarters. Arreola and Curtis contend that, despite their proximity to the United States, the border cities are fundamentally Mexican places, as distinguished by their cultural landscapes, including town plan, land-use pattern, and building fabric. Their study, richly illustrated with over 75 maps and photographs, offers a provocative and insightful interpretation of the geographic anatomy and personality of these fascinating—and rapidly changing—communities.
Author: Leonard Cardenas
Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: Yoonhee Kim
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464809178
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Despite impressive economic growth and increasing prosperity, cities in Mexico do not seem to have fully captured the benefits of urban agglomeration, in part because of rapid and uncoordinated urban growth. Recent expansion of many Mexican cities has been distant, disconnected, and dispersed, driven mainly by large single-use housing developments on the outskirts of cities. The lack of a coordinated approach to urban development has hindered the ability of cities in Mexico to boost economic growth and foster inclusive development. It also has created a fissure between new housing developments and urban services, infrastructure, and access to employment. Mexico Urbanization Review: Managing Spatial Growth for Productive and Livable Cities in Mexico provides an analytical basis to understand how well-managed urban growth can help Mexican cities to capture the positive gains associated with urbanization. To this end, the authors analyze the development patterns of the 100 largest Mexican cities using a set of spatial indexes. They then examine how the recent urban growth has affected the economic performance and livability of Mexican cities and offer recommendations for adjusting urban policy frameworks and instruments in ways that support sustainable spatial development and make cities more productive and inclusive.
Author: Andrew Selee
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271075325
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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In the last two decades of the twentieth century, many countries in Latin America freed themselves from the burden of their authoritarian pasts and developed democratic political systems. At the same time, they began a process of shifting many governmental responsibilities from the national to the state and local levels. Much has been written about how decentralization has fostered democratization, but informal power relationships inherited from the past have complicated the ways in which citizens voice their concerns and have undermined the accountability of elected officials. In this book, Andrew Selee seeks to illuminate the complex linkages between informal and formal power by comparing how they worked in three Mexican cities. The process of decentralization is shown to have been intermediated by existing spheres of political influence, which in turn helped determine how much the institution of multiparty democracy in the country could succeed in bringing democracy “closer to home.”
Author: Caroline Poeschl
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 49
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Author: Jonathan Fox
Publisher: University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Lesley Ann DeNardis
Publisher:
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Category : Central-local government relations
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: David Arellano Gault
Publisher:
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Category : Bureaucracy
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Author: Susan Bass
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585760503
Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: Claudia N. Avellaneda
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1803929073
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
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This incisive book presents a critical compilation of empirical studies assessing local government performance in Latin America. Analysing original administrative data from municipalities in the understudied countries of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico, Claudia N. Avellaneda and contributors pose the titular question: what works in Latin American municipalities?
