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Title: Mexico Megacity by James B. Pick, Edgar W. Butler ISBN: 0-8133-3754-2 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00

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Summary: "A concise look into the biggest city of the world"
Comment: With its enormous population and growing importance as an international center, Mexico City is an important laboratory for urban studies of many kinds. This book describes and analyzes the city's growth, change, and social characteristics, including migration patterns, housing, transportation, crime, the labor force, economic levels, marriage and fertility patterns, health and morality, ethnic and social groups and the environment. The book concludes with acapstone chapter that summarizes the researchers' findings, reflects on some of the previous literature about the city, and suggests government policies that may benefit the city's future.

Despite all the interesting information that is provided in this book, why would I want to pay .... for this book? For any student of urban sociology, public policy, urban anthropology etc. as well as for any urban missionary or urban pastor this book is a treasure house of information about a major world class city and a model of the kind of research that needs to be done on cities anywhere. People like me, who love their city and want to understand it better, "Mexico MegaCity" offers great insights into how a city works. It is crucial that information like this be used and then applied to ministry strategies or public policy proposals or economic development plans etc...