| Mexico Megacity Revised Edition Contributor(s): Pick, James B. (Author), Butler, Edgar W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813337542 ISBN-13: 9780813337548 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: This book describes and analyzes a wealth of data about Mexico City's growth, change, and spatial patterns. Applying modern techniques of geographic information systems and cluster analysis, the authors reveal many previously unknown or unrecognized trends and patterns. The authors provide historical background, analyze key findings and relationships, and tie their results to the literature on Mexico City and other giant cities. The United Nations predicts the emergence of many more giant cities worldwide over the next quarter century, most of which will appear in the developing world. "Mexico Megacity" may be a milestone from a comparative perspective in increasing knowledge about one developing world megacity and offering analytical tools to study others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - History | Latin America - Mexico - Architecture |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 2012655090 |
| Lexile Measure: 1360 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.88" W x 9.94" (1.65 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Mexican |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With a population of 15 million persons in 1990, Mexico City is one of the world's largest cities. It is a famous center of civilizations and culture and one of the economic capitals of the Americas, but it also has serious social and economic problems, including large impoverished zones, severe environmental degradation, crime, and overpopulation.This book describes and analyzes growth, change, and spatial patterns in Mexico City, looking at urbanization, population, marriage and fertility, health and mortality, migration, environment and housing, social characteristics, the economy, labor force, and corporate structure. Applying modern techniques of geographic information systems and spatial analysis, the authors reveal many previously unknown or unrecognized trends and patterns. In a capstone chapter, they summarize the spatial patterns in a series of cluster analyses that identify distinctive zones within the metropolis?a prosperous core, surrounding complex ring patterns, an impoverished zone, and semi-rural arms. They also compare the pattern of Mexico City's cluster zones to the classical and developmental literature on cities. In closing, the authors suggest government policies that would foster optimal future development of an even larger metropolis.This book addresses a topic of growing importance. The United Nations predicts the emergence of many more giant cities worldwide over the next quarter century, most of which will appear in the developing world. Mexico Megacity is a milestone work that increases our knowledge about one developing world megacity while offering analytical tools for studying others. |