Description |
1 online resource (330 pages). |
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Series |
CEDLA Latin America Studies
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Latin America studies.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
City planning -- Ecuador -- Citizen participation.
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City planning. |
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Ecuador. |
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Political participation. |
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Dwellings -- Ecuador -- Design and construction -- Citizen participation.
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Dwellings. |
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Housing development -- Ecuador -- Citizen participation.
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Housing development. |
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Urban anthropology -- Ecuador.
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Urban anthropology. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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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) |
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0857453726 (electronic book) |
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9780857453716 |
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0857453718 |
Standard No. |
9786613591814 |
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ebc915502 |
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