"The main contribution of this book is to offer different disciplinary approaches and methodologies that illuminate and critique the fundamental contradictions of urban housing, experience, and citizenship in Latin America....[The] introduction does an admirable job of framing the main themes." * Hispanic American Historical Review



"...the book offers a row of good, interesting articles providing new perspectives on a series of topics related to the growth and change processes in Latin American cities...the book is definitively a must for everyone interested in recent development trends of Latin American cities and can only be warmly recommended." * Anthropos



"I highly recommend this collection of essays; the volume offersmuch-needed insight into low-income communities that have often been portrayed as a stigma in LatinAmerican urbanism. In addition, the book represents a major contribution to the fields of anthropology, sociology, urban ethnography, human geography, architecture, and Latin American studies and the thoughtful way in which the concepts are analyzed offers a chance to rethink Latin American urbanism in a more critical way." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology