Counterweight cities in South America as an answer to unitarian centralism: Santa Cruz, Guayaquil and Concepcion

This article introduces the concept of “counterweight cities” to describe towns that are able to generate an endogenous development process and promote decentralization in traditionally centralist states. This role is accompanied by the prevalence of federalist or autonomist thinking, supported in a...

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Main Authors: Esteban Valenzuela-Van Treek, Claudia Vaca
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2020-09-01
Series:Íconos
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Online Access:https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/4127

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