Ronn Pineo is associate professor of history at Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland. James A. Baer is professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia. Ronn Pineo is associate professor of history at Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland. James A. Baer is professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Political Impulses: Popular Participation in Formal and Informal Politics, Bogotá, Colombia -- Dangerous Streets: Trolleys, Labor Conflict, and the Reorganization of Public Space in Montevideo, Uruguay -- Mexico City: Popular Classes and Revolutionary Politics -- Viva La Revolución Social! Postrevolutionary Tenant Protest and State Housing Reform in Veracruz, Mexico -- Buenos Aires: Housing Reform and the Decline of the Liberal State in Argentina -- Civilizing the City of Kings: Hygiene and Housing in Lima, Peru -- Public Health Care in Valparaíso, Chile -- The Sick and the Dead: Epidemic and Contagious Disease in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- The Cities of Panama: Sixty Years of Development -- Urbanization, the Working Class, and Reform