Format:
Online-Ressource (300 p)
ISBN:
9780742554214
Series Statement:
Latin American Silhouettes
Content:
This innovative history utilizes the built environment as a means of tracing the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Patrice Olsen considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments during the critical period from 1920 to 1940. Architects, engineers, politicians, and entrepreneurs alike expressed visions of what modern Mexico should be and sought to improve the nation through an array of initiatives. Their successes and failures, and thus the direction of the revol
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Contents; Preface: "Architecture Never Lies"; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. "La Revolución Constructiva" (1920-1928); Chapter 02. "Gobernar a la Ciudad Es Servirla"": The Maximato and Further Institutionalization of the Revolution; Chapter 03. "La Ciudad, la Casa de Todos"; Chapter 04. The City and the Expanding Revolution; Chapter 05. The Cityscape and New Conceptions of the State; Chapter 06. A Home for the Revolution: Patterns and Meaning in Residential Development; Chapter 07. Conclusion: The City and the Revolution, in Aggregate; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Additional Edition:
9780742557314
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Artifacts of Revolution : Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940
Language:
English
Keywords:
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