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Author Klaufus, Christien.

Title Urban Residence : Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (330 pages).
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Series CEDLA Latin America Studies
Latin America studies.
Contents List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction Urban Living and Architecture; 1 -- Intermediate Andean Cities; 2 -- Neighborhood Dialectics; 3 -- Habits in House Building; 4 -- Fashionable Homes; 5 -- Transformations in Cuencan Architecture; 6 -- Riobamba, Disordered City; 7 -- The Ordinary City; Appendix Ethnographic Urban Research; Glossary; References; Index.
Summary Riobamba and Cuenca, two intermediate cities in Ecuador, have become part of global networks through transnational migration, incoming remittances, tourism, and global economic connections. Their landscape is changing in several significant ways, a reflection of the social and urban transformations occurring in contemporary Ecuadorian society. Exploring the discourses and actions of two contrasting population groups, rarely studied in tandem, within these cities--popular-settlement residents and professionals in the planning and construction sector--this study analyzes how each is involved in ho.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject City planning -- Ecuador -- Citizen participation.
City planning.
Ecuador.
Political participation.
Dwellings -- Ecuador -- Design and construction -- Citizen participation.
Dwellings.
Housing development -- Ecuador -- Citizen participation.
Housing development.
Urban anthropology -- Ecuador.
Urban anthropology.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Klaufus, Christien. Urban Residence : Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012 9780857453716
ISBN 9780857453723 (electronic book)
0857453726 (electronic book)
9780857453716
0857453718
Standard No. 9786613591814
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