MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 131227s2014 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013051123
020 $a9781781682807 (hardback)
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050 00 $aNA2543.S6$bM39 2014
082 00 $a720.1/03098$223
084 $aPOL002000$aARC010000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMcGuirk, Justin.
245 10 $aRadical cities :$bacross Latin America in search of a new architecture /$cJustin McGuirk.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bVerso,$c2014.
300 $a296 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of activist architects, politicians and radical communities. From Chile to Brazil, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers people who have begun rebuilding and redesigning their environments in radically new ways. After decades of political and architectural failure, a new generation has returned to the problems of the city to address the poverty and inequality. This is a generation of activists, pragmatists and social idealists, and together they are testing new ideas that the rest of the world can learn from. An architect in Chile has designed a new form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; Medellín, the murder capital of Colombia, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over a 45-story skyscraper, Torre David; and architect Jorge Mario Jáuregui has upgraded Rio's favelas in exciting new ways"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFrom Buenos Aires to San Salvador de Jujuy : Dictators and Revolutionaries -- From Lima to Santiago : A Platform for Change -- Rio de Janeiro : The Favela Is the City -- Caracas : The City Is Frozen Politics -- Torre David : A Pirate Utopia -- Bogotá : The City as a School -- Medellín : Social Urbanism -- Tijuana : On the Political Equator.
650 0 $aArchitecture and society$zLatin America$xHistory$y21st century.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zLatin America$xGrowth.
650 0 $aCity dwellers$xPolitical aspects$zLatin America.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781781682807.jpg