Sistemas urbanos en América Latina, el Caribe y Estados Unidos

Sinopse

This book is the result of two main concerns: the first is the analysis of urban systems and networks of cities; and the interest in "panoramic" views at general, national and continental scales, which allow macro processes to be made visible and, thus, to face the macrocephalies that reflect an excess of concentration in the regional and local scales, common in urban studies, at least in Latin America. The other concern that motivates us in this editorial project is what we observe as a scarcity of continental perspectives on this type of issues, despite the fact that they are common in European or North American schools of geography, where researchers recurrently focus their attention on Latin America, Asia or Africa, elaborating conscientious balances of the relations between cities, not only at the national or regional level, but mainly at the continental level.