Amazonia has undergone a significant urban transformation since the late 1970s. This is the first comprehensive analysis of urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on comparative household and sectoral survey research, the authors find that the growth of Amazon cities fits no single current theory of urbanization; instead they propose a pluralistic theory of "disarticulated urbanization" to explain the region's varied and volatile settlement patterns.
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Rainforest Cities provides the first comprehensive analysis of the varied and volatile settlement patterns that characterise the urbanisation process in the Amazon.... a valuable contribution to regional development and environmental studies.
(David Hyndman, University of Queensland Anthropological Forum )Review
Brings into focus the entire urban dimension of environmental change in Amazonia. Read the book and you will find it enlarges your understanding of the world's last great rainforest frontier. It presents an impressive rethinking of conventional analyses of social change and regional development throughout Amazonia. A splendid publication.
(Norman Myers, author of The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future )
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