Fernando Luiz Lara is professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil and coauthor of Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil and Modern Architecture in Latin America.

While human beings have inhabited the lands of the Americas for some thirty thousand years, why is it that people act like only the last three hundred matter? Author Lara explores this oversight in Spatial Theories for the Americas. Recommended. All readers.

Fernando Luiz Lara is professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil and coauthor of Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil and Modern Architecture in Latin America.

While human beings have inhabited the lands of the Americas for some thirty thousand years, why is it that people act like only the last three hundred matter? Author Lara explores this oversight in Spatial Theories for the Americas. Recommended. All readers.

Fernando Luiz Lara is professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil and coauthor of Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil and Modern Architecture in Latin America.

While human beings have inhabited the lands of the Americas for some thirty thousand years, why is it that people act like only the last three hundred matter? Author Lara explores this oversight in Spatial Theories for the Americas. Recommended. All readers.