Review article: Urban problems in developing countries |
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| Authors: | Valdo Pons |
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| Institution: | 1. Professor of Sociology , University of Hull;2. Visiting Professor at University of Dar‐es‐Salaam |
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| Abstract: | The Urban Informal Sector: critical perspectives on employment and housing policies. Edited by Ray Bromley, Oxford: Pergamon. 1979. (First published in 1978 in World Development Vol 6 No 9 pp 1031–1200). £12.00 Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities. Edited by Ray Bromley & Chris Gerry, Chichester: John Wiley. 1979. 323 pp. £13.50 Urbanisation and Urban Growth in the Caribbean: an essay on social change in dependent societies. Malcolm Cross, Cambridge University Press. 1979. 174 pp. £10.50. £3.95 pb People and Housing in Third World Cities: perspectives on the problem of spontaneous settlements. D J Dwyer, New York: Longman. 1979. (First published in 1975). 286 pp. £4.95 £4.95 pb Urbanisation and Social Change in West Africa. Josef Gugler & William G Flanagan, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 235 pp. £10.00. £3.95 pb Urban Development in the Third World: policy guidelines. John D Herbert, New York: Praeger. 1979. 238 pp. £12.25 Urbanisation in Papua New Guinea: a study of ambivalent townsmen. Hal B Levine & Marten Wolfzhan Levine, Cambridge University Press. 1979. 161 pp. £8.95. £3.95 pb Networks and Marginality: life in a Mexican shantytown. Larissa Adler Lomnitz, London: Academic Press. 1977. (First published in Spanish in 1976.) 230 pp. £13.65 Million Cities of India. Edited by R P Misra, New Delhi: Vikas. 1978. 405 pp. £10.95 The Management of Squatter Upgrading: a case study of organisation, procedures and participation. David Pasteur, Farnborough, England: Saxon House. 1979. 232 pp. £11.50 Cities of Peasants: the political economy of urbanisation in the Third World. Bryan Roberts, London: Edward Arnold. 1978. 207 pp. £4.50 pb An Urban Profile of the Middle East. Hugh Roberts, London: Croom Helm. 1979. 239 pp. £14.95 Urban Planning in Rich and Poor Countries. Hugh Stretton, Oxford University Press. 1978. 220 pp. £4.50. £2.25 pb Manchester and Sao Paulo: problems of rapid urban growth. Edited by John D Wirth & Robert L Jones, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1978. 234 pp. np Housing Asia's Millions: problems, policies and prospects for low‐cost housing in Southeast Asia. Edited by Stephen H K Yeh & A A Laquian, Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. 1979. 243 pp. $12.00 |
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