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Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000s (Hardcover)
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Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000s (Hardcover)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin
America's twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history
within the changing relationship between industrialization and
urbanization, modernization and development. This relationship
began in the early twentieth century, when industrialization and
urbanization became significant in the region, and ends at the
beginning of the twenty-first century, when new tensions between
liberal globalization and populist nationalism challenge
development in the subcontinent, much of which is still poverty
stricken. Latin America's twentieth-century modernization and
development are closely related to nineteenth-century ideals of
progress and civilization, and for this reason Almandoz opens with
a brief review of that legacy for the different countries that are
the focus of his book - Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and
Venezuela - but with references to others. He then explores the
regional distortions, which resulted from the interaction between
industrialization and urbanization, and how the imbalance between
urbanization and the productive system helps to explain why
'take-off' was not followed by the 'drive to maturity' in Latin
American countries. He suggests that the close yet troublesome
relationship with the United States, the recurrence of
dictatorships and autocratic regimes, and Marxist influences in
many domains, are all factors that explain Latin America's
stagnation and underdevelopment up to the so-called 'lost decade'
of 1980s. He shows how Latin America's fate changed in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first century, when neoliberal
programmes, political compromise and constitutional reform
dismantled the traditional model of the corporate state and
centralized planning. He reveals how economic growth and social
improvements have been attained by politically left-wing yet
economically open-market countries while others have resumed
populism and state intervention. All these trends make up the
complex scenario for the new century - especially when considered
against the background of vibrant metropolises that are the main
actors in the book.
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