ABSTRACT
The chapters of this monograph have already served to demonstrate that the future of the Caribbean region is intimately tied up with both the urban and the global. Indeed, a central theme throughout has been that this conflation of urbanity and the global has been central to the region since its first urban settlements were established. The relationship became stronger and stronger with the subsequent colonial control and domination of Caribbean territories. The second major theme, therefore, is a direct corollary of these circumstances, for both socially and environmentally, the local has tended to be persistently overlooked and undervalued in the Caribbean region, due to the hegemony of the global and the international.
