Professor Marta Gutman edited this special section of the Journal of Urban History and wrote the introduction. Photo: County Road, Winthrop, Washington, 2016. Courtesy Marta Gutman.
Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services—affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation, along with reliable food systems. Many of these countries cannot afford the complex and resource-intensive systems based on Western, single-sector, industrialized models. In this book, Hillary Brown and Byron Stigge propose an alternate