Planning Latin America's capital cities, 1850-1950 / edited by Arturo Almandoz.

Title & Author:

Planning Latin America's capital cities, 1850-1950 / edited by Arturo Almandoz.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Description:

xii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Planning, history and the environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Urbanization and urbanism in Latin America: from Haussmann to CIAM / Arturo Almandoz -- I. CAPITALS OF THE BOOMING ECONOMIES -- Buenos Aires, a great European city / Ramón Gutiérrez -- Time of the capitals. Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: words, actors and plans / Margareth da Silva Pereira -- Cities within the city: urban and architectural transfers in Santiago de Chile, 1840-1940 / Ferndando Pérez Oyarzun, José Rosas Vera -- II. EARLY VICEREGAL CAPITALS -- Urban development of Mexico City, 1850-1930 / Carol McMichael Reese -- Script of urban surgery: Lima, 1850-1940 / Gabriel Ramón -- Havana, from Tacón to Forestier / Roberto Segre -- Caracas: territory, architecture and urban space / Lorenzo González Casas -- Urbanism, architecture, and cultural transformations in San José, Costa Rica, 1850-1930 / Florencia Quesada -- Conclusions / Arturo Almandoz.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415272653
9780415272650

Subject:

City planning Latin America History.
Capitals (Cities) Latin America Planning History.
Urbanization Latin America History.
Urbanisme Amérique latine Histoire.
Capitales Amérique latine Planification Histoire.
Urbanisation Amérique latine Histoire.
Capitals (Cities) Planning.
City planning.
Urbanization.
Hoofdsteden.
Stadtplanung
Hauptstadt
Planejamento territorial urbano (história) América latina.
Áreas metropolitanas.
Capitale.
Planification urbaine.
Urbanisme.
Urbanisation.
Histoire.
1850-1899.
1900-1949.
Latin America.
Lateinamerika
Amérique latine.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Almandoz Marte, Arturo, 1960-
Planning, history, and the environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227034
Call No.: HT169.L3 P53 2002
Status: Available

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