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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (1): 178–181.
Published: 01 February 1974
.... Bibliography . Pp. xvii , 101 . Paper. Politics and Planners/Economic Development Policy in Central America . By Wynia Gary W. . Madison , 1972 . The University of Wisconsin Press . Maps. Tables. Graphs. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 227 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1973 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 41–71.
Published: 01 February 2012
... justice. As engineers struggled to fertilize the briny lands at a reasonable cost, many urban planners proposed lake conservation and afforestation over drainage and farming to secure urban prosperity. But the agricultural vision remained dominant. In the 1950s and ’60s, however, urbanization...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 775–777.
Published: 01 November 1977
...). The book uses a standard economic constrained utility maximization model (presented in non-technical language in Chapter 3) and proceeds to test several hypotheses emerging from the model on the data set. The women are separated into three basic groups, sophisticated planners (i.e. using modern, highly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 May 1974
... District’s population. In contrast, only 33 percent five in the airplane-shaped planned city known as “Pilot Plan.” He documents for city planners and architects anywhere the superficiality of planning that places emphasis on form alone, leaving social processes and their nonphysical purposes to one side...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 673–674.
Published: 01 November 1968
...Joseph Alessandro Although this book does not purport to present a ready list of solutions for the educational planner, it contains some real insights which, if more widely known, could result in more and better education for all classes of society. Of significant value is the treatment...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (4): 777–778.
Published: 01 November 1999
.... The capital of a poor state, Recife lacked municipal resources for massive projects. Moreover, there was little public discussion about what the planners were doing, although legislators argued over budgetary issues and the wisdom of proposed loans. These debates generated coverage in the press. City...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 774–775.
Published: 01 November 1977
... Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University to design Ciudad Guayana as the economic capital of the southern Guayana region. This book reports on the efforts of the team of urban planners to establish an identity for the new city being formed out of the disparate cluster of small...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (3): 522–523.
Published: 01 August 1968
... years a group of physical planners, economists, urban designers, anthropologists, and others recruited by the Joint Center worked with the CVG staff on the project. The volume under review is the second in a series of studies written by this group. At the time that the author carried out research...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (4): 666–667.
Published: 01 November 1968
... propose local community initiative and action. They review past difficulties of the Latin American city planner or arquitecto and his plan regulador , often totally isolated from the realities of the urban environment. This background clarifies the need for close relationships between planners...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 697–698.
Published: 01 November 1995
... would willingly trade tortillas made from fresh com for ones made of Minsa?), constrained into nuclear family units, often living among strangers, and paid a daily wage, with the important decisions in their lives made by outside experts (bankers, agricultural technicians, planners, and social...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 368–369.
Published: 01 May 1969
... wide experience in Venezuela, and previously in northeastern Brazil. (He is now directing the Ford Foundation’s Program in Urban and Regional Development in Chile.) Friedmann’s theory emphasizes a “systems” approach to regional development planning, an approach designed to help the planner to think...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 778–780.
Published: 01 November 2007
... not translate into actual church-state cooperation in housing construction programs. Housing was more than an emblem of social justice. It also represented a pressing issue for urban planners, as the migration of thousands of Argentines from the interior to the periphery of the city of Buenos Aires...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (3): 560–562.
Published: 01 August 1970
...). A concluding essay underlines the need for national planners to work out a priority index which makes it possible to compare all their possible projects. This applies particularly to transport investments, which typically are large and have special potential for serious mistakes which absorb funds that could...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 February 1981
... permitted the exiles to escape otherwise certain capture. It was not a fine hour for the United States. Wyden’s account suggests how many of the planners were contemptuous of Cubans and other Latin Americans; he touches briefly on the cultural blindness of these planners. “American policy-makers suffer...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 February 1970
... planners tend to move more methodically from a given present situation to a specified future which, if less than utopian, is considered both desirable and attainable. Because they tacitly accept an existing situation as a beginning point, planners are more often than not viewed with contempt by radical...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 February 1970
...-looking publishing house of Tercer Mundo in Bogotá, and it should be read by government planners, bureaucrats, clergymen, and others in Colombia who are attempting to effect a change of social structures. Nevertheless, quite apart from its many attributes, the work will prove depressing reading because...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (2): 416–417.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in the Lower Amazon Valley. The author demonstrates convincingly that the relative success of colonization hinges on the efforts of the settlers themselves and not on the grandiose and distant schemes of governors, legislators, and planners. Moreover, Anderson’s careful review of colonization efforts during...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 374–376.
Published: 01 August 1967
... the migrations from the Northeast to the South and East have resulted in a dangerous imbalance. Perhaps the greatest single raison d’etre for the Estudios sociales , apart from their values as reference works, is the guidance which they give to socioeconomic planners. The authors point out that because...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 796–797.
Published: 01 November 1970
.... xxvii , 320 . $15.00 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 This book is not intended for enjoyment but for use. Perhaps that is enough. Crammed with statistics, technical data, tables, and charts, it is designed as a handbook for the planner or agricultural specialist to help him...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1976) 56 (4): 687–689.
Published: 01 November 1976
..., but the work’s principal pitch is to geographers, ecologists, planners and other practitioners of the applied sciences. On prima facie evidence, the volume and its companion folder of eight large map plates come across as a highly quantitative technical microstudy. More than forty percent of its contents...
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