The Struggles Over City-Space: Informal Street Vending and Public Space Governance in Medelin, Colombia

by Daniel Hawkins

The relatively rapid and poorly regulated processes of urbanization in Latin America, linked in Colombia's case to violent processes of rural displacement, have left behind them gaping structures of socio-spatial segregation. The historical class dimensions of such an inequitable development process can be well illustrated via an analysis of the marked differences between conceptions, uses and representations of space in the inner-city of Medellin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3832967001
• ISBN13: 9783832967000
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• Length: 328 Pages