Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon

John O. Browder and Brian Godfrey

August, 1997
Paper, 424 pages, 48 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-10655-9
$38.50 / £22.50

Cloth, 424 pages, 48 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-10654-2
$88.00

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.

Related Subjects

• Ecology

About the Author

JOHN O. BROWDER is associate professor of urban and regional planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. BRIAN J. GODFREY is associate professor of geography at Vassar College.

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