On the everyday history of pedestrians' bodies in Sao Paulo's downtown amid metropolization (1950-2000) / Fraya Frehse -- Antinomic-complementary landscapes: the beach and the favela in early-twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro / Julia O'Donnell and Bianca Freire-Medeiros -- Caracas and Merida, Venezuela: coloniality, space, and gender in the film Azul y no tan rosa / Leo Name -- A loud cinematic city: Recife's motion condition in neighboring sounds / Maria Helena B.V. da Costa -- Homo portenicus: the police and urban identity in Buenos Aires / Lila Caimari -- Sports urbanization and modernization of public habits: Santiago during the first year of Los Sports magazine (1932) / Rodrigo Millan Valdes -- The portable jazz age: Josephine Baker's tour of South American cities (1029) / Ynae Lopes dos Santos -- Eradicating blackness from the ideal city: urbanization, global spectacle, and Brazil's centenary / Lorraine Leu -- From unregulated growth to planned city: the Bosque Calderon Tejada neighborhood, Bogota (1935-1940) / German R. Mejia-Pavony -- Scratching space: memoryscapes, violence and everyday life in Mexico City and Buenos Aires / Anne Huffschmid.
Summary:
Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, with a timely emphasis on comparative studies. The book brings together scholars with various disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical affiliations who critically approach urban experiences through visual accounts, texts and architectural elements. The reader is introduced to major theories, secondary sources and empirical references that have not been written about in English. Film and photography, fictional and historical writings, particular buildings and landmarks - all inspire fascinating glimpses into different moments in the biography of cities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.