This collection of essays argues that urban arts not only shape the imagined space of Latin American cities, but also structure real, lived urban space.
This collection of essays argues that urban arts not only shape the imagined space of Latin American cities, but also structure real, lived urban space.
Rebecca E. Biron is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of Twentieth-Century Latin America.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: City/Art: Setting the Scene / Rebecca E. Biron 1 Part 1. Urban Designs What is a City? / Néstor García Canclini 37 Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too / Adrián Gorelik 61 The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk / James Holston 85 Part 2. Street Signs City, Art, Politics / Nelly Richard 115 The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of the Aesthetics / Marcy Schwartz 127 Miami Remake / José Quiroga 145 The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction / Amy Kaminsky 165 Part 3. Traffic On Maps and Malls / Hugo Achugar 185 Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro / George Yúdice 211 Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness / Nelson Brissac Peixoto 233 Bibliography 251 Contributors 267 Index 271
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: City/Art: Setting the Scene / Rebecca E. Biron 1 Part 1. Urban Designs What is a City? / Néstor García Canclini 37 Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too / Adrián Gorelik 61 The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk / James Holston 85 Part 2. Street Signs City, Art, Politics / Nelly Richard 115 The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of the Aesthetics / Marcy Schwartz 127 Miami Remake / José Quiroga 145 The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction / Amy Kaminsky 165 Part 3. Traffic On Maps and Malls / Hugo Achugar 185 Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro / George Yúdice 211 Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness / Nelson Brissac Peixoto 233 Bibliography 251 Contributors 267 Index 271
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