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RECORD NUMBER: 4666 OF 4698Main Title | Where North meets South : cities, space, and politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border / | |||||||||||
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Author | Herzog, Lawrence A. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1990 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 20826899 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 029279049X; 9780292790490; 0292790538; 9780292790537 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Mexican-American Border Region--Geography ; Cities and towns--Mexican-American Border Region ; Urbanization--Mexican-American Border Region ; Human geography--Mexican-American Border Region ; North America--Mexican-American Border Region ; Grensgebieden | |||||||||||
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Edition | 1st ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | "A Center for Mexican American Studies book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-280) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Introduction ---- Human settlements, space, and international boundaries in global perspective --- The formation of an urban system along the U.S.-Mexico boundary --- Urban space in cross-cultural perspective --- Comparative morphology and spatial structure in the San Diego-Tijuana Border zone --- Dimensions of transboundary urban space --- The politics of space in a transfrontier urban ecosystem --- Conclusion: the political economy of urban space on the U.S.-Mexico Border. This book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi). |