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Title: Urbanization in Latin America


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Urbanization in Latin America
  • Relationship to industrialization
  • Patterns of urban growth
  • Access to housing
  • Access to social Services
  • Impact on women
  • Problems of rapid industrialization

2
Latin American Urbanization
3
Latin American Manufacturing
4
Latin American Agriculture
5
Gross Domestic Product
6
Patterns of Urban Growth
  • Primate Cities and Ports
  • Immigration
  • Internal Migration
  • Impact on individuals and families

7
Growth of Cities
8
Impact on Fertility Rates
9
Fertility Rate in Bolivia
10
Fertility Mexico
11
Male Sexual Activity
12
Urban poverty
13
Regional Contraceptive Use
14
Access to Housing
  • Land purchase
  • Renting
  • Squatting
  • Do poor living conditions lead to a culture of
    poverty?

15
Access to Social Services
  • Water and Electricity
  • Telephones
  • Public Education
  • Medical Care
  • Transportation

16
Access to Telephones
17
Illiteracy
18
Transportation Demands
19
Railroads
20
Impact on Women
  • In many cases, women migrate more frequently than
    men
  • Often young and unmarried
  • Limited work opportunities
  • Traditional womens work

21
Problems of Rapid Urbanization
  • Demographic imbalances economic and political
    impliations
  • Over-centralization of government, education,
    social services, industry
  • Strains on local, regional and national resources
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