Description:
Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the complexity and diversity of urbanization in the Global South.
Brief description:
Nadine Reis is a professor at the Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at El Colegio de México.
Review Quotes:
" Beyond the Megacity makes a key contribution to global urban studies by bringing together leading authors on the phenomenon of peripheral urbanization in Latin America. Bringing together a vast range of perspectives, topical concerns, and geographies of analysis, this book is doubtless a major achievement and sets new terms of debate."
--Juan Miguel Kanai, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield" Beyond the Megacity expresses an epistemological and empirical shift relevant to Latin American urban studies. The different parts, including theoretical framework, urban periphery, agency from below, and extended urbanization, organize a suggestive journey that allows us to understand some recent urban transformations in the continent that - beyond their heterogeneity and polysemy - can effectively be grouped under the idea of 'peripheral urbanization.'"
--Ramiro Segura, Professor of Urban Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de San Martín