Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonial

This research is about the housing architectural development in the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) margins at the end of the Colonial Period. Both the Spanish strategy of domination in this area and a geopolitical need drew up the guidelines for the economic growth of this obscure and remote village...

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Main Author: Osvaldo Otero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2010-03-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/59287
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description This research is about the housing architectural development in the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) margins at the end of the Colonial Period. Both the Spanish strategy of domination in this area and a geopolitical need drew up the guidelines for the economic growth of this obscure and remote village of the Spanish Empire: “the forgotten village”. There was mass migration, both external and internal, within that context. This generated tension in the urban space as well as in the inner social system. The growing elite demanded increasing shares of commercial participation and power, made an intensive use of the urban land, and generated a new architectural aesthetic expressed in the formal language of the Neoclassicism. All these contributions guide and give theoretical support to another vision of this history. Therefore, in this thesis, they will enrich the research process and facilitate the weaving of the net by considering spatial variables, housing patterns, the use and occupation of the land, and the forms of economic accumulation and identity in its widest meaning. Through housing, we are able to “read” the inhabitants and interpret the houses’ social value.
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spelling doaj.art-70fdc1d134c14f93a9f39f9c9635f18c2025-03-05T10:30:34ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522010-03-0110.4000/nuevomundo.59287Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonialOsvaldo OteroThis research is about the housing architectural development in the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) margins at the end of the Colonial Period. Both the Spanish strategy of domination in this area and a geopolitical need drew up the guidelines for the economic growth of this obscure and remote village of the Spanish Empire: “the forgotten village”. There was mass migration, both external and internal, within that context. This generated tension in the urban space as well as in the inner social system. The growing elite demanded increasing shares of commercial participation and power, made an intensive use of the urban land, and generated a new architectural aesthetic expressed in the formal language of the Neoclassicism. All these contributions guide and give theoretical support to another vision of this history. Therefore, in this thesis, they will enrich the research process and facilitate the weaving of the net by considering spatial variables, housing patterns, the use and occupation of the land, and the forms of economic accumulation and identity in its widest meaning. Through housing, we are able to “read” the inhabitants and interpret the houses’ social value.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/59287Buenos AiresarchitecturehousingColonial periodsymbolic valueurban growth
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Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonial
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
Buenos Aires
architecture
housing
Colonial period
symbolic value
urban growth
title Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonial
title_full Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonial
title_fullStr Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonial
title_full_unstemmed Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonial
title_short Vivienda y poder: la sociedad urbana en el Buenos Aires tardocolonial
title_sort vivienda y poder la sociedad urbana en el buenos aires tardocolonial
topic Buenos Aires
architecture
housing
Colonial period
symbolic value
urban growth
url https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/59287
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