Abstract
Should a physics professor wish to demonstrate the concept of inertia he or she could choose no better example than models of urban spa tial structure. For nearly sixty years the principal models of urban structure were all based on United States cities. Text after text pro moted (and still promote!) the classical concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei models as though these abstractions represented all cities everywhere. Eventually, investigators recognized the need for other models in other cultural situations and began to produce culture specific generalizations. Latin American cities, among others, began to receive attention, and Gilbert's recent characterization of them suggests their singularity:
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