ABSTRACT
The previous chapters have illustrated, in broad outline terms, the salience of the concepts of modernity and post-modernity to any consideration of urban change, globalisation and development in the contemporary Caribbean. This proved to be particularly the case when considering the updated and revised version of the plantopolis model reviewed in chapter 2. In addition, concepts of modernity/post-modernity also entered into the discussion of urban structures presented in chapter 3. But postmodernity is particularly related to the promotion and development of tourism in the Caribbean, and as already argued, tourism is a strong impetus to present-day urbanisation in the Caribbean. This theme is fully explored in the present chapter. At a number of junctures, following the arguments presented in chapters 2 and 3 of this volume, the implications of such themes for urban change and urban structuring in the wider Caribbean region are explored. In chapter 5, the debate is broadened out to consider the wider environment.
