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10 mai 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.iheal.6759
- eisbn: 9782371540798
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Elisabeth A. Allen, « Infrastructural investment and new settlement », Éditions de l’IHEAL, ID : 10.4000/books.iheal.6759
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This paper looks at the levels of development found in certain new settlements in a peripheral, or frontier region of the humid tropical lowlands of Mexico as part of a process of national development. It suggests that the higher the degree of infrastructural investment, the greater the degree of involvement in the political structure of the region and the nation. The provision of infrastructure in new settlements is evidence of permanency and a physical proof of establishment, but it is also...