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This monograph addresses the twin processes of urbanization and globalization as they affect the contemporary Caribbean region. One of the key aims is to focus attention on the fact that, contrary to popular perception, the Caribbean is highly urbanized. Indeed, statistics show that the region is more highly urbanized that the world taken as a whole. In addition, the fact that processes of globalization, in respect of its economy, polity and society have always affected the Caribbean region, is central to the text. The chapters cover pressing topics such as urban change and the evolution of mini-metropolitan regions, the importance of the mercantile and plantopolis frameworks, tourism, postmodernity and the urban nexus, economic change and the dual processes of global convergence and divergence, and the nature of the relationships existing between the state, the informal sector, housing and environmental conditions. In reality, it is shown that the development of tourism and enclave manufacturing is leading to new forms of urban concentration, and not spatial dispersion.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change
• Author: Robert B. Potter
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780754611394
• ISBN: 0754611396
• ID: 04678051
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 570 g
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2000

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