"The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 - Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates" by Idurre Alsonso

The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 - Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates Idurre Alsonso, Maristella Casciato

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Format:: Hardback
Publication date:: 17 Aug 2021
ISBN:: 9781606066942
Imprint:: Getty Publications
Dimensions:: 304 pages:

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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Drawing from the Getty Research Institute's vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities' changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems,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.

Idurre Alonso is associate curator of Latin American collections at the Getty Research Institute.||Maristella Casciato is senior curator and head of architectural collections at the Getty Research Institute.