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Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico : Urbanization by Stealth / Peter M. Ward.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292799981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.3/36416/09721 21
LOC classification:
  • HV4045.5.T4 W37 1999eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Perspectives on Texas Colonies and the Project Methodology -- One Introduction to toe Border Reginn and to the Case Study Cities -- Two Land and Housing Production in the Colonias of Texas and Mexico -- Three Servicing No Man's Land: Ambivalence versus Commitment in the Texas-Mexico Colonias -- Four Settlements or Communities? Social Organization and Participation in the Colonias -- Five Social Services to Colonies: Shifting the Focos toward Means Rather than Ends -- Six Conclusion: Texas Colonias and the Next Policy Wave -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "irregular" subdivisions offer the only low-cost housing available to the mostly Hispanic working poor. This book presents the results of a major study of colonias in three transborder metropolitan areas and uncovers the reasons why colonias are spreading so rapidly. Peter Ward compares Texas colonias with their Mexican counterparts, many of which have developed into fully integrated working-class urban communities. He describes how Mexican governments have worked with colonia residents to make physical improvements and upgrade services-a model that Texas policymakers can learn from, Ward asserts. Finally, he concludes with a hard-hitting checklist of public policy initiatives that need to be considered as colonia housing policy enters its second decade in Texas.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Perspectives on Texas Colonies and the Project Methodology -- One Introduction to toe Border Reginn and to the Case Study Cities -- Two Land and Housing Production in the Colonias of Texas and Mexico -- Three Servicing No Man's Land: Ambivalence versus Commitment in the Texas-Mexico Colonias -- Four Settlements or Communities? Social Organization and Participation in the Colonias -- Five Social Services to Colonies: Shifting the Focos toward Means Rather than Ends -- Six Conclusion: Texas Colonias and the Next Policy Wave -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "irregular" subdivisions offer the only low-cost housing available to the mostly Hispanic working poor. This book presents the results of a major study of colonias in three transborder metropolitan areas and uncovers the reasons why colonias are spreading so rapidly. Peter Ward compares Texas colonias with their Mexican counterparts, many of which have developed into fully integrated working-class urban communities. He describes how Mexican governments have worked with colonia residents to make physical improvements and upgrade services-a model that Texas policymakers can learn from, Ward asserts. Finally, he concludes with a hard-hitting checklist of public policy initiatives that need to be considered as colonia housing policy enters its second decade in Texas.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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