Rainforest Cities

Amazonia has undergone a significant urban transformation since the late 1970s. This is the first comprehensive analysis of urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on comparative household and sectoral survey research, the authors find that the growth of Amazon cities fits no single current theory of urbanization; instead they propose a pluralistic theory of "disarticulated urbanization" to explain the region's varied and volatile settlement patterns.

John O. Browder is associate professor of urban and regional planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Plates
Preface
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Acronyms
Amazon Town Revisited: New Urban Realities on Brazil's Rainforest Frontier	p. 1
Theoretical Perspectives on Frontier Urbanization: Toward an Urban Systems Approach	p. 20
Geopolitics, Regional Development, and Urbanization: Historical Dynamics of Amazon Frontier Expansion	p. 55
A Pluralistic Theory of Disarticulated Urbanization	p. 83
Metropolitan Centers in Amazonia: Regional Cities and Urban Primacy	p. 122
Crossroads of the Dawn: Urbanization of Rondonia's Populist Frontier	p. 160
Instant Cities of Southern Para: Urbanization of a Contested Corporatist Frontier	p. 202
Migration, Social Mobility, and Income Generation in Urban Amazonia	p. 250
Frontier Urbanization in the Global Periphery: Regional Disarticulation and Surplus Extraction	p. 277
Frontier Urbanization and Environmental Change in Amazonia	p. 312
Patterns of Development and Urbanization on the Global Periphery	p. 348
Technical Appendix	p. 367
References	p. 375
Author Index	p. 401
Subject Index	p. 407
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