Rainforest cities: urbanization, development, and globalization of the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

Amazonia has undergone a significant urban transformation since the late 1970s. This is the first comprehensive analysis of 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.