Planning Latin American Capital Cities1850-1950
Series: Planning, History, and the Environment Series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415272650
First sentence: When American planner and scholar Francis Violich published his book Cities of Latin America (1944) - in some respects an introduction, for the North American audience, to the unknown urban reality of the rest of the two continents - he repeatedly praised the gracious 'Old World'character of the main Latin American metropolises, comparing it to the lack of genuine urban style in most North American cities.