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"The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates examines the unprecedented growth of several cities from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis"--
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Getty Research Institute,
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| Publisher Address: | Los Angeles, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates examines the unprecedented growth of several cities from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 297 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [282]-285) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781606066942 1606066943 |
| Index Number: | HT127 |
| CLC: | C912.81-097.3 |
| Call Number: | C912.81-097.3/M594 |
| Contents: | Chronology, 1800-1930 -- Population growth in Latin American metropolises, 1830-1930 -- Introduction / Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato -- Album: capital cities -- The emergence of capital cities in nineteenth-century Latin America / Germán Rodrigo Mejía Pavony -- Order, nature, and society: exile and return from paradise in the city to come / Jorge F. Rivas Pérez -- Album: colonial cities and national heroes -- From postcolonial cities to the first metropolises / Arturo Almandoz -- The domination of nature in the construction of the urban landscape / Sonia Berjman -- Album: leisure -- The visible and the invisible: the photographic image of the metropolis / Idurre Alonso -- Visions of mobility: early cinema reaching capital cities in Latin America / David M.J. Wood -- Album: infrastructures -- Shaping the metropolis: urban plans for Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires / Maria Cristina da Silva Leme -- The resurgence of the ancient past: Mexico City in the age of modern technologies / Cristóbal Jácome-Moreno -- The search for a new art: pre-hispanic and colonial revivals in the Americas / Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales -- Album: debates -- Architects and urban planners: transatlantic journeys from Europe to Latin America / Maristella Casciato -- Album: toward modernism. |