When I first decided to write on this topic, a reaction ofd&ja uu appeared. This was natural, I suppose, because I had spent some four years compiling a bibliography entitled Latin American Urbanization: A Guide to the Literature, Organization and Personnel. l The 6903 entries represented text and reference books, journal articles, pamphlets, conference proceedings, dissertations, theses and government documents, published in five languages. That combination bibliography-directory was subdivided into 3 1 specific fields ofactivity including urbanizationPer se, rural-urban migration, and some 29 additional disciplines and applied fields in the humanities, social sciences and science-technology, ranging from the city in Latin American literature and urban religion, to urban education and transportation, and to urban pollution and garbage collection.