The Colonias Reader: Economy, Housing, and Public Health in U.S.-Mexico Border Colonias.

The book I used for searching the history of colonias, the Bracero program, policies, etc.



http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=nGMKjPUR_cgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA4&dq=The+Colonias+Reader:+Economy,+Housing,+and+Public+Health+in+U.S.-Mexico+Border+Colonias.&ots=td6dFoVNgI&sig=zMuK3djhMy4ZwLRKpoqXHb25s5c#v=onepage&q=The%20Colonias%20Reader%3A%20Economy%2C%20Housing%2C%20and%20Public%20Health%20in%20U.S.-Mexico%20Border%20Colonias.&f=false

Texas A&M Colonias factbooks

Texas Department of Human Services, The Colonias Factbook (Austin, Texas, June 1988), p. 1-3.

Texas Water Development Board, Water and Wastewater Needs of Texas Colonias: 1995 Update (Austin, Texas, February 1995), p. 3.

Proposal to U.S. Housing and Urban Development from Texas A&M University, Center for Housing and Urban Development, Community Outreach Partnership between Residents of Ten Colonias Along Highway 359 East of Laredo, Texas and The Government of Webb County, Texas and Texas A&M University's Colonias Program (College Station, Texas, April 1994). (Booklet.)

Texas Department of Human Services, The Colonias Factbook, pp. 6-4, 6-5.

Texas A&M University, Colonias Program Performance Appraisal and Opportunities for the State of Texas to Improve Colonia Conditions (College Station, Texas, July 23, 1996), p. 7.

Chris Butler: Henri Lefebvre Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City

Chris Butler: Henri Lefebvre Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City

http://books.google.com/books?id=TaQJawakHPYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+right+to+the+city+lefebvre&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zHkyUv6dH4W52wWAt4DYDA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20right%20to%20the%20city%20lefebvre&f=false

Henri Lefebvre: The Right to the City

Lefebvre, H. (1968). The Right to the City. In E. Kofman & E. Lebas (Eds.), Writings on

Cities. (147 159). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Sep 11

Synopsis

Lefebvre argues that cities are no longer what their historical purpose was: to provide

‘ouvre’ anthropological needs for information, symbolism, the imaginary and play.

Cities in his opinion became empty theatres of consumer goods for tourists.

He argues that only working class has the power to take action and power into their

hands. Lefebvre suggests a program of urban renewal to be put forward and presented

preferentially to the ‘left’ parties or political formations who would be willing to represent

the working class.