Editorial Reviews
Richard J. Walter of Washington University, St. Louis HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, February 1999
[Vol. 79, no. 1] 145-147
Overall, this is a useful and informative collection. While the essays often draw on other works of the respective authors, they are original,
well researched, written in a generally jargon-free and engaging manner, and designed especially for this volume. The coverage is good,
providing information on a range of cities of various types, sizes, and locations. While there is a considerable variety, there is also enough
of an emphasis on basic issues to allow useful comparisons. The emphasis on the popular classes, the ordinary citizens of these cities, may
occasionally overstate their influence, and relatively little is said about the nuts and bolts of municipal governance. Nonetheless, the editors
and contributors are to be commended for producing a volume that makes a valuable addition to our understanding of Latin America's
urban growth and of the social history of the region.                                                                                                             

Table of Contents 

Chapters

1. Political Impulses: Popular Participation in Formal and Informal Politics, Bogota, Colombia     

2. Dangerous Streets: Trolleys, Labor Conflict, and the Reorganization of Public Space in
Montevideo, Uruguay                                                                                                                                   

3. Mexico City: Popular Classes and Revolutionary Politics                                                                  

4. Viva La Revolucion Social! Postrevolutionary Tenant Protest and State Housing Reform in
Veracruz, Mexico                                                                                                                                         

5. Buenos Aires: Housing Reform and the Decline of the Liberal State in Argentina                      
 
6. Civilizing the City of Kings: Hygiene and Housing in Lima, Peru                                                    

7. Public Health Care in Valparaiso, Chile                                                                                              

8. The Sick and the Dead: Epidemic and Contagious Disease in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil                

9. The Cities of Panama: Sixty Years of Development                                                                    

10. Urbanization, the Working Class, and Reform