From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs: The Role of the Urban Poor in Latin American Cities (Review Article)

This essay will advance two interrelated hypotheses about the Latin American city. The first of them has to do with the role of the city in the settlement of the New World. The second suggests certain characteristics of the modern Latin American metropolis.

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Jobs’ amenability is not enough: The role of household inputs for safe work under social distancing in Latin American cities

World Development ◽

10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105247 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 140 ◽

pp. 105247

Author(s):

Lucila Berniell ◽

Daniel Fernandez

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Safe Work ◽

American Cities

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Housing tenure in Latin American cities: The role of household income

Habitat International ◽

10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.09.006 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 51 ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andres Blanco ◽

Alan Gilbert ◽

Jeongseob Kim

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Household Income ◽

Housing Tenure ◽

American Cities

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Latin America and the environmental health movement

Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health ◽

10.1093/med/9780198725916.003.0020 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 280-284

Author(s):

Ana Faggi ◽

Sylvie Nail ◽

Carolina C. Sgobaro Zanette ◽

Germán Tovar Corzo

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Green Infrastructure ◽

Well Being ◽

Urban Revitalization ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Respiratory Problems ◽

American Cities ◽

Environmental Inequalities ◽

Health And Well Being

Although Latin American cities, on the whole, suffer from haphazard urbanism and environmental inequalities, concern around public health and nature has begun to emerge. Different ongoing initiatives relating to the ecosystem services of urban green attempt, among other things, to mitigate the effects of air pollution on respiratory problems. Green infrastructure across the subcontinent today offers opportunities—and represents challenges—for the implementation of policies promoting health and well-being which are emblematic of the urban revitalization process. This chapter shows some ongoing trends from Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Curitiba, three representative cities in the region, that reflect the role of green spaces for the health and well-being of urban-dwellers in Latin American cities.

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Santiago Chile, 1541–1581: A Case Study of Urban Stagnation

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/980784 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 205-225

Author(s):

Joseph B. Fichandler ◽

Thomas F. O’Brien

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

New World ◽

Ruling Class ◽

Urban Centers ◽

Empire Building ◽

Mother Country ◽

Imperial Power ◽

American Cities

Attempts to understand the nature of colonial Latin American cities have tended to focus on the role of urban centers in the process of empire building. The Spanish cities of the New World served initially as spearheads of conquest, and later as centers for the exercise of Imperial control. A particularly important aspect of this control was the effort by the Crown to limit the power of encomenderos, men whose royally granted right to use Indian labor threatened to create a local ruling class independent of Imperial power. Richard Morse has recently asserted that the patrimonial nature of many of these urban centers resulted from the efforts of the mother country to retain them in the Imperial structure against the counter-claims of the encomenderos. As for those poorer settlements on the outskirts of empire. Morse believes that the appeal of landed wealth drew many of their most prominent citizens into the countryside, leaving the cities to stagnate.

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Gentrification in Latin America: Overview and Critical Analysis

Urban Studies Research ◽

10.1155/2014/986961 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

John J. Betancur

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Local Governments ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Large Scale ◽

Global South ◽

Urban Restructuring ◽

Local Conditions ◽

Global North ◽

American Cities

This paper offers a critical review and interpretation of gentrification in Latin American cities. Applying a flexible methodology, it examines enabling conditions associated with societal regime change and local contingencies to determine its presence, nature, extent, and possibilities. Questioning the uncritical transfer of constructs such as gentrification from the Global North to the Global South, the paper advocates analyses of mediating structures and local conditions to determine their applicability and possible variations. Overall, the review questions the feasibility of self-sustained, large scale gentrification in central areas of the region’s cities today tying it to each city’s level of incorporation into global circuits and the role of local governments. Rather than an orthodox hypothesis testing, this is an exercise in interpretation that calls for nuanced approaches to the study of urban restructuring in cities of the global South.

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La evaluación externa: Un mecanismo para garantizar la calidad de la educación superior en Costa Rica

Revista Electrónica Educare ◽

10.15359/ree.22-2.16 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

María Isabel Torres-Salas ◽

Andrea García-Rojas ◽

Andrea Alvarado-Arguedas

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Latin American ◽

Institutional Culture ◽

Review Article ◽

Complex Process ◽

Self Assessments ◽

Quality In Higher Education ◽

Latin American Countries

This study aims to show that the accreditation involves a dynamic and complex process. The accreditation allows the improvement of higher education because it ensures and promotes quality in all the aspects that compose this educational level. This bibliographic review article considered a range of criteria concerning the standards accrediting bodies use to have self-assessments made. These criteria are associated with different experiences carried out both in Costa Rica and in other Latin American countries. In addition, this article proposes a reflection on the different mechanisms used to evaluate the quality in higher education institutions, as well as an analysis on the role of accreditation in these public universities versus the quality systems and the ways to promote the development of an institutional culture that leads to quality processes in Costa Rica. Among the main findings, the study showed that these processes put in evidence the strengths and weaknesses of the careers or institutions that undergo the accreditation, which allows the implementation of improvement plans leading to a continuously improving process that is subject to external verification following established criteria and standards.

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