Top 10 Latin America´s cities by antoniostradivarus

Latin America contains five metropolitan areas with more than 8 million people. Their combined population is over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those five cities. Two of them, Mexico City and Sao Paulo are arguably be the world's two largest cities.
The sheer number of people living in Latin America's mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst systems of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shanty towns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of air and water pollution, and serious levels of traffic congestion. This book is about the prospects for their future.

Several clear conclusions emerge from the book. First, the largest cities of Latin America differ greatly in terms of their future prospects. It is far easier to be optimistic in Buenos Aires than in Lima. Second, whether urban problems improve or deteriorate has rather little to do with size of city and a great deal to do with trends in the wider economy and society. Increasingly, those trends are determined not just by local decisions but by decisions made outside the region. Third, Latin America's mega-cities are not going to grow to unmanageable proportions because their growth rates have generally slowed. Fourth, management is a critical issue for the future but it is difficult to know whether the quality of management will improve or deteriorate through time.

The book contains chapters on each of Latin America's six largest cities (Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, and Santa fe de Bogota). The book also has four thematic chapters. The first discusses the demography of urban growth in the region and the other three focus on what are particularly sensitive issues in very large cities: public administration, transportation, and land, housing, and infrastructure.

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• latin america cities
• sao paolo
• buenos aires
• santiago
• mexico city
• guatemala
• rio de janeiro
• brazil states

[RBRodas]

Mexico city is not the largest city in the world as you claimed. no es la mas densamente poblada, ni la con mayor habitantes.

[TPOver9000]

@Rod948 Si, pero mexico se fundo sobre la capital del imperio Azteca por lo que existia desde antes que los españoles pisaran america.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

@madeinmedellin1

Alright man, I see what you are saying...

[madeinmedellin1]

@Scoinsoffaterocks Hola, seguramente quieres mucho a Medellín y no hay nada de malo con eso, pero el amor por la ciudad no debe llevarnos a pensar que es de las mejores de America latina, para ser sincero no estoy de acuerdo con el orden del video, pero Medellín no entra a un top 10, toma en cuenta que incluso hay ciudades que no aperecen en este video como Monterrey, Guadalajara, Belo horizonte, Porto alegre, Curitiba entre otras que son mejores que Medellín..

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

Porque Medellin no esta ahi?

[SlyBeGone]

Un gran video, educando a los estados unidos que se creen que todo latino america es pobre.

[perla51]

Wonderfullll!!!!! Hugs Perla.