Description
URBAN LANDSCAPES
Book Summary
This collective work invites a profound reflection on the complex relationship between the urban landscape and the concept of the "passage" (pasaje) in the cities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary analysis, the authors examine how the city becomes a central space that capitalizes on social life, revealing a process of urban development marked by temporal heterogeneity and regional asymmetry. The reader will find a rigorous study that unravels the historical and social layers that shape the Latin American urban fabric.
What is it about?
The book addresses the imbrication between landscape and urban passage, starting from the premise that the city in Latin America and the Caribbean functions as a space that concentrates and capitalizes on social life. The collected texts analyze how diverse models of urban and social development converge and overlap, ranging from pre-colonial and colonial to modern, postmodern, and post-colonial. This superimposition creates a highly hetero-temporal and asymmetric landscape, both regionally and nationally, where dissimilar urban realities coexist, reflecting complex and contradictory historical processes.
Main themes
- The relationship between urban landscape and the concept of the passage in the configuration of Latin American cities
- The city as a centralizing space for social life in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Temporal heterogeneity and asymmetry in regional and national urban development processes
- Convergence and superimposition of development models: pre-colonial, colonial, modern, postmodern, and post-colonial
- Critical analysis of urban transformations from an interdisciplinary perspective
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at academics, researchers, and students of urban planning, architecture, geography, sociology, and Latin American studies interested in understanding the complexity of urban processes in the region. It is also of great value to urban development professionals, planners, and cultural managers seeking a critical and contextualized perspective on the dynamics of Latin American and Caribbean cities.
What this book offers
- An integrative vision that connects the analysis of the urban landscape with the social and historical transformations of Latin America
- Conceptual tools to understand the heterogeneity and asymmetry of regional urbanization processes
- A critical approach that unveils the multiple temporal layers and development models that coexist in cities
- Interdisciplinary perspectives that enrich the debate on contemporary urban space
- Reference material to deepen the study of Latin American cities through a post-colonial lens
Technical data
- Author: Various Authors
- Publisher: LINKGUA
- Language: Spanish
- Topic: CLASSIC TEXTS
- Collection: PENSAMIENTO-AMERICA ENTRE COMILLAS
- Binding: Paperback
- Publication date: December 2017
- Number of pages: 289
- Weight: 347 g
Editorial assessment
URBAN LANDSCAPES presents itself as a reference work for those seeking to understand Latin American urban dynamics from a critical and multidisciplinary perspective. Its main value lies in the ability to articulate concepts such as landscape and passage to unravel the contradictions and asymmetries that characterize the development of cities in the region. The work is particularly relevant for academics and professionals who need solid conceptual tools to analyze the complexity of contemporary urban spaces, offering an approach that transcends simplistic and linear interpretations of urbanization.