UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 16 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Roberta Mendonca De Carvalho, teaching associate professor in the urban studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, will deliver a talk titled "500 Cities in 50 Years: Fragmentation and Urban Expansion in the Amazon" at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, in 112 Walker Building at Penn State University Park. The talk will also be accessible via Zoom.
De Carvalho will discuss how the creation of more than 500 municipalities over the past 50 years has transformed the Brazilian Amazon into an increasingly urbanized region. Her talk will examine the Amazon not only as a forest frontier but also as a region where cities, po...