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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Autores:
Negrón, Marco
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2004
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/32095
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/32095
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/22175/
Palabra clave:
Caracas
city/countryside
regional system
Venezuela
Caracas
campo-ciudad
sistema regional
Venezuela
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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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.