Arturo Almandoz is Professor at Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, and Professor Adjunct in Satiago's Catholic University of Chile. He has published extensively on Latin America and has taught at other universities in the region.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Karl Brunner’s contribution to Latin America’s urbanismo2. Manual de Urbanismo Volume 13. Translation into English of the Synthesis only, pp 1-65 of Manual de Urbanismo4. The following further material can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781138778573 Karl Brunner, "Problemas actuales de urbanización", Anales de la Universidad de Chile, year VIII, term 1, 1930, pp. 11-40.Translation into English of `Problemas Actuales de Urbanizacion’ by Arturo Almandoz.

Arturo Almandoz is Professor at Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, and Professor Adjunct in Satiago's Catholic University of Chile. He has published extensively on Latin America and has taught at other universities in the region.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Karl Brunner’s contribution to Latin America’s urbanismo2. Manual de Urbanismo Volume 13. Translation into English of the Synthesis only, pp 1-65 of Manual de Urbanismo4. The following further material can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781138778573 Karl Brunner, "Problemas actuales de urbanización", Anales de la Universidad de Chile, year VIII, term 1, 1930, pp. 11-40.Translation into English of `Problemas Actuales de Urbanizacion’ by Arturo Almandoz.