Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930 - Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates

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.

"The authors shed light on the transformations that modified the colonial model of Iberian cities in America, from Mexico to Argentina, displacing the axis of viceregal power toward a circuit of cities that were able to expand and gather international prestige during the republican period. The book includes an unusual repertoire of topics in the field of research of history at the early stages of modernity in Latin America."-Gabriela Rangel, artistic director, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); "The Metropolis in Latin America is an excellent survey featuring the city's key role in the conformation of the social and political order of the newly born republics, with enlightening essays that discuss a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches. A magnificent iconographic collection shows how Latin American urban development challenged Western architecture's aesthetic canons, became an accurate laboratory for the newly constituted discipline of urbanism, and shaped the structure of its own image and identity, as we can see today."-Horacio Torrent, professor of architecture, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Idurre Alonso, Maristella CasciatoChronologyALBUM_ Capital Cities1-The Emergence of Latin American Capital Cities in the Nineteenth Century German Rodrigo Mejia Pavony2-Exile and Return from Paradise in the City of the Future: Order, Nature, and Society in the Latin American Metropolis JorgeF. Rivas PerezALBUM_ Colonial Cities and National Heroes3-From Postcolonial Cities to the First Latin American Metropolises, 1850-1930 Arturo Almandoz4-Dominated Nature in the Construction of the Latin American Urban Landscape Sonia BerjmanALBUM_ Avenues, Parks, Theaters, and Vacation5-The Visible and the Invisible: The Photographic Image of the Latin American Metropolis (1840-1930) Idurre Alonso6-Visions of Mobility: Early Cinema in the Latin American Metropolis David M. J. WoodALBUM_ Infrastructures7-Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: Plans and Projects for the Formation of the Metropolis Maria Cristina da Silva Leme8-The Resurgence of the Ancient Past: Mexico City in the Age of Modern Technologies Cristobal Jacome-Moreno9-Americanizing the Metropolis. Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Reinterpretations in the Search for a New Art Rodrigo GutierrezVinualesALBUM_ Expositions and Literature10-Architects and Urban Planners, Voyages from Europe to Latin America Maristella CasciatoALBUM_ Toward ModernismArchival SourcesBibliographyIndex