Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development. The contributions range from studies of peripheral Third World states, such as Fiji and Malaysia, to countries of the so-called semi-periphery, such as Spain, South Africa, and Northern Australia. In addition the authors cover a variety of thematic topics within the framework of urban economic development, from the provision of basic services such as housing and food, to the functional preservation of historic cores, and the impact of economic change on family structure.
Introduction: Urbanization, Economic Development, and Space
1. Dependent
Urbanization in the Contemporary Semi-Periphery: Deepening the Analogy
2.
Anteroom to a Madhouse: Economic Growth and Urban Development in Barcelona
in the Franco Era
3. Urbanization at the Periphery: Reflections on the
Changing Dynamics of Housing and Employment in Latin American Cities
4.
Industrialization and Household Response: A Case Study of Penang
5. The
Acceptable Face of Self-Help Housing: Subletting in Fiji Squatter Settlements
Exploitation or Survival Strategy?
6. The Built Environment and Social
Movements in the Semi-Periphery: Urban Housing Provision in the Northern
Territory of Australia
7. Upgrading the Matchboxes: Urban Renewal in
Soweto, 1976-86
8. Economic Considerations on the Renovation of the Historic
Centre of Salvador (Bahia), Brazil
9. Temporary Trading for Temporary People:
The Making of Hawking in Soweto
10. Consumerism, the State, and the Informal
Sector: Shebeens in South Africas Black Townships
11. The Last Frontier: The
Emergence of the Industrial Palate in Hong Kong Bibliography Index
David Drakakis-Smith
