Extract from the Editorial:
The articles in this issue of City & Community look northward and southward, comparing the urban United States to other cities of the Americas. It brings together three articles on Canadian cities and three essays on Latin American cities. Like the compilation of articles on “Cities of the Middle East” in the fourth issue of volume 9, City & Community has assembled contributions on Canadian cities into this fourth issue of volume 10. The intention is to encourage through comparison more reflection on how a neighboring, broadly similar, but nonetheless different nation-state shapes urban social life. This issue of C&C also includes three essays that analyze North American cities and/or U.S. urban sociology from the perspective of Latin American urbanism. In an increasingly global era, urban theorists need to stretch the imagination and look farther afield to appreciate contemporary urban trends.
