Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Introduction: Old and New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America 1
5. PART 1 Framing Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America
6. 1 Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South 55
7. 2 Urban Community and Resistance 83
8. 3 Planetary Urbanization and the Commodity Super-Cycle in Latin America 89
9. PART 2 Metropolitan Peripheries under Financialization and Urban Extractivism
10. 4 Large-Scale Housing in Peripheral Urbanization: Persistence and Change in the Production of Urban Space in the Mexico City Megaregion 105
11. 5 Peri-urban Megaprojects in Santiago de Chile: The Urbanization by Holdings and the Paradoxical Happiness of Middle- Class Dwellers 133
12. 6 Financialization and Social Reproduction in the Buenos Aires Urban Periphery 148
13. PART 3 Community, Commoning, and Political Agency on the Urban Margins
14. 7 The Self-Built City as Palimpsest: (Re)Constructing Urban Memory in Lima’s Hybrid Peripheries 167
15. 8 Occupy the Periphery: Housing Occupations and the Production of Urban Commons in Belo Horizonte 197
16. 9 Hybrid Livelihoods: Resistant Adaption in Peri-urban Bolivia 225
17. 10 Blurring the Urban-Rural Divide: Urban Peripheries as Sites of Food Sovereignty Construction in Caracas 239
18. PART 4 Extended Urbanization between New Rurality and Operational Landscapes
19. 11 Planetary Urbanization, Agro-Exports, and Informality: Making Sense of the Expanding Peripheries and Emerging Cities in Coastal Ecuador 259
20. 12 Worlding the Atacama Desert: Peripheral Urbanization and Transnational Resource Extraction Urbanism in Antofagasta, Chile 285
21. 13 Planetary Urbanization and Maquiladoras: Unveiling Abstract Space in Yucatán, Mexico 312
22. 14 Rural Livelihoods, Urbanization, and Incomplete Population Transitions in Brazil 334
23. 15 The Urbanization of Mexico’s Countryside: A Socio-political Approach to Spatial Transformation 350
24. Conclusion: Peripheral Urbanization: Current Trends, Methodological Advances, and the Decolonization of Urban Theo 369
25. Contributors 395
26. Index 403