Third World Urbanization [Paperback]

 This book was first published in 1977.

Section I: Cities and Inequality

Introduction

1. An Arab philosophy of history: Selections from the Prologema of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis (1332-1406)

2. The Prince and the Discourses, Niccolo Machiavelli

3. The city, the division of labor and the emergence of capitalism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

4. Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, V.I. Lenin

Section II: Past and Present

Introduction

5. Daily life in China on the eve of the Mongol invasion, 1250-1276, Jacques Gernet

6. The condition of working-class in England, Friedrich Engels

7. The home of man, Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson)

8. Urban Latin America: the political condition from above and below, Alejandro Portes

9. Patterns of urbanization and socio-economic development in the third world: an overview, Richard Hay Jr.

Section III: New Theories on Third World Development

Introduction

10. On the sociology of national development: theories and issues, Alejandro Portes

11. Dependency: a critical synthesis of the literature, Ronald H. Chilcote

12. Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa - origins and contemporary forms, Samir Amin

Section IV: Problem Manifestations in Urbanization: Regional Imbalances

Introduction

13. The geography of modernization: paths, patterns and processes of spatial change in developing countries, Edward W. Soja and Richard J. Tobin

14. Colonialism and the spatial structure of underdevelopment: outlines of an alternative approach, with special reference to Tanzania, D. Slater