Cities: country development engines

This text gives consideration to the historical relationship between the city and the countryside, the main idea is propose a coherent relationship between the Latin American mayor cities and the not yet defined country role, towards the improvement of the nation’s destiny. The author calls attentio...

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Main Author: Negrón, Marco
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá - Facultad de Artes - Instituto de Investigaciones Hábitat, Ciudad & Territorio 2004
Online Access:https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/bitacora/article/view/18754
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Summary:This text gives consideration to the historical relationship between the city and the countryside, the main idea is propose a coherent relationship between the Latin American mayor cities and the not yet defined country role, towards the improvement of the nation’s destiny. The author calls attention on the fact that the cities grow disproportionately, without control or prevention on the impact to the environment, threatening the equilibrium city/countryside. In Venezuela, he considers the case of Caracas city and its closest regional system.