The Caribbean City

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. 1. The Caribbean City: An Introduction – Rivke Jaffe, Ad de Bruijne and Aart Schalkwijk

• Colonial Influences on Urban Form in the Caribbean: Illustrated by Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – Asad Mohammed

1. 1. The Evolution of Urban Housing Policy in the British West Indies, 1929−1960s  – Richard Harris
   2. Colonizing the New Deal: Federal Housing in San Juan, Puerto Rico – Marygrace Tyrrell

• The Political Economy of Jamaica’s Inner-City Violence: A Special Case? – Mark Figueroa, Anthony Harriott and Nicola Satchell

1. Class, Unemployment and Housing Problems in Kingston, Jamaica since Independence 

Colin Clarke and David Howard

• Ethnic Residential Patterns in Paramaribo: Spatial Segregation or Blending?  – Ad de Bruijne and Aart Schalkwijk

• Fragmented Cities: Social Capital and Space in Urban Curaçao and Jamaica  – Rivke Jaffe

• Caché vs. Casheríos: Urban Development, Distinction and Segregation in Puerto Rican Neighbourhoods – Zaire Z. Dinzey Flores

1. 1. Making a Living: Small-Scale Metal Smelting as a Livelihood Strategy in Kingston, Jamaica  – David R. Dodman
   2. Working From Home: Urban Livelihoods in Low-Income Surinamese and Trinidadian Households  – Hebe Verrest
   3. Clarke’s Two Vitamin Cs for Successful Living: Calypso and Christianity in Urban SXM  – Francio Guadeloupe

• Urban Space in the French Caribbean Crime Novel: Confiant and Chamoiseau – Liesbeth De Bleeker

1. La Dernière Des Races Après Les Crapauds Ladres: Confiant’s Citizens and Terroir in Mamzelle Libellule – Kathleen Gyssels