Latin American Cities
Recognizing Complexities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2747577 |
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| Authors | Matthew Edel (Queens College, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-174 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0023879100034774 |
| OpenAlex | W4313172810 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The six books to be discussed here represent a variety of approaches in the burgeoning field of Latin American urban studies. The approaches range from the abstract economic model building of Allen Kelley and Jeffrey Williamson to the much more applied economics of Paul Strassman; from the culturally oriented field research of James Hopgood to Alan Gilbert's and Peter Ward's empirical investigations influenced by the concepts of political economy; and from these to the organizationally focused reports of Jorge Hardoy's and David Satterthwaite's team and most of Pradip Ghosh's contributors. When so many disciplines and approaches converge on a field, the result is frequently a variety of nonintersecting conclusions. Like the proverbial blind men 165
Action (physics) · Content (measure theory) · Latin Americans · Political science · Economic and Technological Innovation · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Mathematics · Public Health and Social Inequalities
| Highly cited | No |
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