Stella Lowder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1018444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stella Lowder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stella |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowder |
| SIGNATURE | LOWDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inside Third World Cities
Originally published in 1986, this book focusses on life within global cities in the developing world, analysing on a city-level the circulation and consumption of goods and services within them. When the book was first published it was one of only a few to offer systematic comparative analyses of developing world cities, and those stemming from different regions, with examples from different continents in each chapter. It discusses the problems …
Housing Policy in Latin American Cities
No abstract available
The Other Side of the Fence
Recovering Resources
Dancing to Different Tunes
Students are often attracted to courses about Latin America by media images of the region with their aura of danger and unpredictability. Such stereotypes must be addressed in teaching, but the means is far from clear when the participants stem from different disciplinary backgrounds and academic traditions. The method adopted here was to tackle development through discourse construction through an appreciation of positionality. This approach ena…
Globalisation of the Footwear Industry
The usual explanation for the globalisation of the footwear industry is the ceaseless search for cheap and amenable labour. The performance of this industry in a range of exporting countries suggests that labour costs alone are insufficient. Attention is focused on the role of labour and the additional factors that have enabled particular countries to penetrate global markets at particular times. Macroeconomic factors, culture and the structure o…
Teaching economic geography
Economic geography should not be taught in isolation from the political and the social if contemporary issues are to be understood. Agents are embedded in broader structures and their decisions are affected by stimuli and constraints which are not purely economic, at whatever scale they operate. This argument is developed with reference to teaching the geography of consumption. Health and retailing are chosen to illustrate consumption because of …
The Latin American City
The Limitations of Planned Land Development for Low-income Housing in Third World Cities
The analysis of planning as an agency, in isolation from the politico-administrative, economic and social structures in which the process takes place, is particularly inappropriate in Third World cities with their grossly inadequate public and unevenly distributed private resources. Neither of the states examined here, embedded in an Islamic and a capitalist economy respectively, succeeded in including genuinely poor households in their schemes, …
Flexible Specialization
The context of urban planning in secondary cities
A Geography of Third World Cities
Low income housing in the developing world The role of site and services and settlement upgrading
State Policies and Migration
From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs
Agrarian Production and Development
The Urban Informal Sector
Latin American Development Issues
The context of urban planning in secondary cities
Inside Third World Cities
Originally published in 1986, this book focusses on life within global cities in the developing world, analysing on a city-level the circulation and consumption of goods and services within them. When the book was first published it was one of only a few to offer systematic comparative analyses of developing world cities, and those stemming from different regions, with examples from different continents in each chapter. It discusses the problems …
A Geography of Third World Cities
Teaching economic geography
Economic geography should not be taught in isolation from the political and the social if contemporary issues are to be understood. Agents are embedded in broader structures and their decisions are affected by stimuli and constraints which are not purely economic, at whatever scale they operate. This argument is developed with reference to teaching the geography of consumption. Health and retailing are chosen to illustrate consumption because of …
Flexible Specialization
The Urban Informal Sector
Globalisation of the Footwear Industry
The usual explanation for the globalisation of the footwear industry is the ceaseless search for cheap and amenable labour. The performance of this industry in a range of exporting countries suggests that labour costs alone are insufficient. Attention is focused on the role of labour and the additional factors that have enabled particular countries to penetrate global markets at particular times. Macroeconomic factors, culture and the structure o…
The Limitations of Planned Land Development for Low-income Housing in Third World Cities
The analysis of planning as an agency, in isolation from the politico-administrative, economic and social structures in which the process takes place, is particularly inappropriate in Third World cities with their grossly inadequate public and unevenly distributed private resources. Neither of the states examined here, embedded in an Islamic and a capitalist economy respectively, succeeded in including genuinely poor households in their schemes, …
State Policies and Migration
Agrarian Production and Development
Latin American Development Issues
The Urban Informal Sector
From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs
Agrarian Production and Development
State Policies and Migration
Low income housing in the developing world The role of site and services and settlement upgrading
A Geography of Third World Cities
The context of urban planning in secondary cities
Flexible Specialization
The Limitations of Planned Land Development for Low-income Housing in Third World Cities
The analysis of planning as an agency, in isolation from the politico-administrative, economic and social structures in which the process takes place, is particularly inappropriate in Third World cities with their grossly inadequate public and unevenly distributed private resources. Neither of the states examined here, embedded in an Islamic and a capitalist economy respectively, succeeded in including genuinely poor households in their schemes, …
Teaching economic geography
Economic geography should not be taught in isolation from the political and the social if contemporary issues are to be understood. Agents are embedded in broader structures and their decisions are affected by stimuli and constraints which are not purely economic, at whatever scale they operate. This argument is developed with reference to teaching the geography of consumption. Health and retailing are chosen to illustrate consumption because of …
The Latin American City
Globalisation of the Footwear Industry
The usual explanation for the globalisation of the footwear industry is the ceaseless search for cheap and amenable labour. The performance of this industry in a range of exporting countries suggests that labour costs alone are insufficient. Attention is focused on the role of labour and the additional factors that have enabled particular countries to penetrate global markets at particular times. Macroeconomic factors, culture and the structure o…
Dancing to Different Tunes
Students are often attracted to courses about Latin America by media images of the region with their aura of danger and unpredictability. Such stereotypes must be addressed in teaching, but the means is far from clear when the participants stem from different disciplinary backgrounds and academic traditions. The method adopted here was to tackle development through discourse construction through an appreciation of positionality. This approach ena…
Recovering Resources
The Other Side of the Fence
Housing Policy in Latin American Cities
No abstract available
Inside Third World Cities
Originally published in 1986, this book focusses on life within global cities in the developing world, analysing on a city-level the circulation and consumption of goods and services within them. When the book was first published it was one of only a few to offer systematic comparative analyses of developing world cities, and those stemming from different regions, with examples from different continents in each chapter. It discusses the problems …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Latin Americans (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)