LEADER 02436nam 2200409 450 001 9910733735803321 005 20230225065728.0 024 7 $a10.25154/book8 035 $a(CKB)4920000001372298 035 $a(NjHacI)994920000001372298 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000001372298 100 $a20230225d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe grid and the park $epublic space and urban culture in Buenos Aires, 1887-1936 /$fAdria?n Gorelik ; translated by Natalia Majluf 210 1$aPittsburgh :$cLatin America Research Commons,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 454 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-951634-21-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aSince its publication in Spanish in 1998, The Grid and the Park not only revitalized studies on the history of Buenos Aires, but also laid the foundation for a specific type of cultural work on the city -an urban perspective for cultural history, as its author would describe it- that has had a sustained impact in Latin America. Public space, embodied in the grid of city blocks and the park system, here appears as a particularly productive category because it encompasses dimensions of the material city, politics, and culture, which are usually studied separately. From Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's figurations of Palermo Park in the mid-nineteenth century to Jorge Luis Borges's discovery of the suburb in the 1920s; from the modernization of the traditional center carried out by Mayor Torcuato de Alvear in the 1880s to the questioning of that centrality by the emergence of the suburban barrio, the book weaves the changing ideas on public space with urban culture to produce a new history of the metropolitan expansion of Buenos Aires, one of the most extensive and dynamic urban centers of the early twentieth century. 517 $aGrid and the Park 606 $aCity planning$zArgentina$zBuenos Aires 606 $aPublic spaces$zArgentina$zBuenos Aires 615 0$aCity planning 615 0$aPublic spaces 676 $a307.12160982 700 $aGorelik$b Adria?n$01274780 702 $aMajluf$b Natalia 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910733735803321 996 $aThe grid and the park$93016288 997 $aUNINA