Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America,... - 9781138490505

Taylor & Francis

Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000sAuthor(s): Arturo Almandoz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138490505, 978-1138490505\nSynopsis\nIn this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin Americas 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. \n\nLatin Americas twentieth-century modernization and development are closely related to nineteenth-century ideals of progress and civilization, and for this reason Almandoz .