ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

V This document was prepared, under the agreement between ECLAC and the United Nations University (UNU), by Mr. Francisco Sabatini and Mr. Ricardo Jordan Fuchs, consultants to the Joint ECLAC/UNCHS Human Settlements Unit and the ECLAC Development and Environment Unit, and forms part of a series of studies on metropolitanization in Latin America and the Caribbean. The opinions expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the authors and may not necessarily coincide with the views held by the United Nations.