Contents
INTRODUCTION
Urban Latin America: Violence, Enclaves, and Struggles for Land / TOM ANGOTTI p5
ARTICLES
Violence/Mexico City
Urban Surges: Power, Territory, and the Social Control of Space in Latin America / ALFONSO VALENZUELA AGUILERA P21
The Cultural Dimensions of Urban Fragmentation: Segregation, Socialility, and Inequality in Mexico City / MARIA CRISTINA BAYON AND GONZALO A. SARAVÍ P35
Zero-Tolerance Policing, Stealth Real Estate Development, and the Transformation of Public Space: Evidence from Mexico City / DIANE E. DAVIS P53
The Securitization of Urban Space and the "Rescue"of Downtown Mexico City: Vision and Practice / ANNE BECKER AND MARKUS-MICHAEL MÜLLER P77
Enclave Urbanism
Islands of Prestige, Gated Ghettos, and Nourban Lifestyles in Puerto Rico / ZAIRE DINZEY-FLORES P95
Afro-Colmbians and the Cosmopolitan City: New Negotiations of Race and Space in Bogotá, Colombia / FATIMAH WILLIAMS CASTRO P105
Barra da Tijuca: The Political Economy of a Global Suburb in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / LAWRENCE A. HERZOG P118
Sustaining Mobility: Bus Rapid Transit and the Role of Local Politics in Bogotá / THOMAS E. BASSETT AND ANDREA MARPILLERO-COLOMBINA P135
Housing, Security, and Employment in Post-Neoliberal Buenos Aires / MATTHEW CHARLES BENWELL, JAMES HASELIP, AND JOSÉ ANTONIO BORELLO P146
Dualisms and the Orientalisms
A Struggle Larger Than a House: Pobladores and Favelados in Latin American Social Theory / ALEXIS CORTÉS MORALES P168
Playing with Power: Participatory Planning Games in Rosario's Villas / JOSH LERNER p185
"We Are Not Marginals": The Cultural of Lead Poisoning in Montevideo Uruguay / DANIEL RENFREW P202
The Urbanization of the Countryside: Depoliticization and the Production of Space in Chiapas / JAPHY WILSON P218
Mining and Toursim: Urban Transformations in the Intermediate Cities of Cajamarca and Cusco, Peru / GRIET STEEL p237