Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power

The day after I first arrived in Guayaquil in mid-1992, a friend showed me around town. I was given the classic geographer’s tour of the city, Ecuador’s largest, located on the Pacific coast of this Andean country. The tour ended in the late afternoon on a hill on the outskirts of the central part of town. It is the kind of hill often favoured by geographers and planners to take visitor…