The metropolis in Latin America 1830-1930 : cityscapes, photographs, debates /
Alonso, Idurre,1979-editor.
Casciato, Maristella,editor.
Getty Research Institute,issuing body.
In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities-Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima-as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute's vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities' changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today's Latin American megalapolis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities-Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima-as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute's vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities' changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today's Latin American megalapolis.
Urbanization
Cities and towns
City planning