Jobs’ amenability is not enough: The role of household inputs for safe work under social distancing in Latin American cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 105247
Author(s):  
Lucila Berniell ◽  
Daniel Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
American Cities

Mortality Amenable to Health Care in Latin American Cities: Examining Between-Country Variation in Amenable Mortality and the Potential Role of Urban Metrics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pricila Mullachery ◽  
Daniel A. Rodriguez ◽  
J. Jaime Miranda ◽  
Nancy Lopez-Olmedo ◽  
Kevin Martinez-Folgar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Amenable Mortality ◽  
Urban Metrics ◽  
American Cities

Latin American Cities: Aspects of Function and Structure

1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
American City ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

This essay will advance two interrelated hypotheses about the Latin American city. The first of them has to do with the role of the city in the settlement of the New World. The second suggests certain characteristics of the modern Latin American metropolis.

From Lemmings to Guinea Pigs: The Role of the Urban Poor in Latin American Cities (Review Article)

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Stella Lowder ◽  
B. Herrick ◽  
B. Hudson ◽  
D. Carrión ◽  
F. Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Review Article ◽  
American Cities

Housing tenure in Latin American cities: The role of household income

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Blanco ◽  
Alan Gilbert ◽  
Jeongseob Kim
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
American Cities

Latin America and the environmental health movement

2018 ◽  
pp. 280-284
Author(s):  
Ana Faggi ◽  
Sylvie Nail ◽  
Carolina C. Sgobaro Zanette ◽  
Germán Tovar Corzo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Respiratory Problems ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Environmental Inequalities ◽  
Health And Well Being

Although Latin American cities, on the whole, suffer from haphazard urbanism and environmental inequalities, concern around public health and nature has begun to emerge. Different ongoing initiatives relating to the ecosystem services of urban green attempt, among other things, to mitigate the effects of air pollution on respiratory problems. Green infrastructure across the subcontinent today offers opportunities—and represents challenges—for the implementation of policies promoting health and well-being which are emblematic of the urban revitalization process. This chapter shows some ongoing trends from Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Curitiba, three representative cities in the region, that reflect the role of green spaces for the health and well-being of urban-dwellers in Latin American cities.

Santiago Chile, 1541–1581: A Case Study of Urban Stagnation

1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-225
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Fichandler ◽  
Thomas F. O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
Imperial Power ◽  
American Cities

Attempts to understand the nature of colonial Latin American cities have tended to focus on the role of urban centers in the process of empire building. The Spanish cities of the New World served initially as spearheads of conquest, and later as centers for the exercise of Imperial control. A particularly important aspect of this control was the effort by the Crown to limit the power of encomenderos, men whose royally granted right to use Indian labor threatened to create a local ruling class independent of Imperial power. Richard Morse has recently asserted that the patrimonial nature of many of these urban centers resulted from the efforts of the mother country to retain them in the Imperial structure against the counter-claims of the encomenderos. As for those poorer settlements on the outskirts of empire. Morse believes that the appeal of landed wealth drew many of their most prominent citizens into the countryside, leaving the cities to stagnate.

scholarly journals The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaure Delaporte ◽  
Julia Escobar ◽  
Werner Peña
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Labour Income ◽  
Distributional Consequences ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean

AbstractThis paper estimates the potential distributional consequences of the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We estimate the share of individuals that are potentially able to remain active under the lockdown by taking into account individuals’ teleworking capacity but also whether their occupation is affected by legal workplace closures or mobility restrictions. Furthermore, we compare the shares under the formal (de jure) lockdown policies assuming perfect compliance with the shares under de facto lockdowns where there is some degree of non-compliance. We then estimate individuals’ potential labour income losses and examine changes in poverty and labour income inequality. We find an increase in poverty and labour income inequality in most of the LAC countries due to social distancing; however, the observed changes are lower under de facto lockdowns, revealing the potential role of non-compliance as a coping strategy during the lockdowns. Social distancing measures have led to an increase in inequality both between and within countries. Lastly, we show that most of the dispersion in the labour income loss across countries is explained by the sectoral/occupational employment structure of the economies.

scholarly journals Gentrification in Latin America: Overview and Critical Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Betancur
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global South ◽  
Urban Restructuring ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Global North ◽  
American Cities

This paper offers a critical review and interpretation of gentrification in Latin American cities. Applying a flexible methodology, it examines enabling conditions associated with societal regime change and local contingencies to determine its presence, nature, extent, and possibilities. Questioning the uncritical transfer of constructs such as gentrification from the Global North to the Global South, the paper advocates analyses of mediating structures and local conditions to determine their applicability and possible variations. Overall, the review questions the feasibility of self-sustained, large scale gentrification in central areas of the region’s cities today tying it to each city’s level of incorporation into global circuits and the role of local governments. Rather than an orthodox hypothesis testing, this is an exercise in interpretation that calls for nuanced approaches to the study of urban restructuring in cities of the global South.

The Role of Nonprofit Sector Networks as Mechanisms for Immigrant Political Participation

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Veronis
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Immigrant Political Incorporation

Issues of immigrant political incorporation and transnational politics have drawn increased interest among migration scholars. This paper contributes to debates in this field by examining the role of networks, partnerships and collaborations of immigrant community organizations as mechanisms for immigrant political participation both locally and transnationally. These issues are addressed through an ethnographic study of the Hispanic Development Council, an umbrella advocacy organization representing settlement agencies serving Latin American immigrants in Toronto, Canada. Analysis of HDC’s three sets of networks (at the community, city and transnational levels) from a geographic and relational approach demonstrates the potentials and limits of nonprofit sector partnerships as mechanisms and concrete spaces for immigrant mobilization, empowerment, and social action in a context of neoliberal governance. It is argued that a combination of partnerships with a range of both state and non-state actors and at multiple scales can be significant in enabling nonprofit organizations to advance the interests of immigrant, minority and disadvantaged communities.

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