ABSTRACT

Third World urbanisation is not a single, uniform phenomenon. Rather it comprises several distinctive processes occurring in different parts of the less developed world that reflect the relationship between global economic forces and local cultural context. This diversity is evident at the intra-urban scale in the differing forms of city that characterise different realms within the Third World. Just as there is no single process of Third World urbanisation, so there is no such single entity as the Third World city'. In this chapter we examine the varied internal structure of cities in the major regions of the Third World.