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OverviewThis book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. Full Product DetailsAuthor: C. Peixoto-MehrtensPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780230103023ISBN 10: 0230103022 Pages: 273 Publication Date: 26 November 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPublic and Private: Crossed Paths in the Paulista Process of Urban Consolidation The Dynamics of Paulista Urban Institutions In the 1930s The Making of Urban Middle-Class Employees In the 1930s The Symbolic Construction of Paulista Urban Identity Politics and Urban Change: The Pacaembu Scheme, 1933-1940Reviews<p> In Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens--historian, architect, and former urban planner--has written a vital book. She details the complex interactions among policy makers, bureaucrats, politicians, and scholars who defined the economic, cultural, social, and political 'spaces' of urban Sao Paulo, Brazil's twentieth-century economic power house. Deftly exploring the labyrinths of state and private development agencies and drawing on an eclectic array of sources, Peixoto-Mehrtens offers fresh insight into Brazil's economic and social modernization in the twentieth century. Her tale of the construction of the Pacaembu Stadium during the late 1930s is a model microhistory of tangled social and political agendas. At the same time, she offers a new chapter in the deepening account of the role Brazil's middle class played in articulating modernity to a nation that in the early twenty-first century has become a risin <p>“In Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil, Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens--historian, architect, and former urban planner--has written a vital book. She details the complex interactions among policy makers, bureaucrats, politicians, and scholars who defined the economic, cultural, social, and political ‘spaces’ of urban São Paulo, Brazil’s twentieth-century economic power house. Deftly exploring the labyrinths of state and private development agencies and drawing on an eclectic array of sources, Peixoto-Mehrtens offers fresh insight into Brazil’s economic and social modernization in the twentieth century. Her tale of the construction of the Pacaembu Stadium during the late 1930s is a model microhistory of tangled social and political agendas. At the same time, she offers a new chapter in the deepening account of the role Brazil’s middle class played in articulating modernity to a nation that in th <p> In Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens--historian, architect, and former urban planner--has written a vital book. She details the complex interactions among policy makers, bureaucrats, politicians, and scholars who defined the economic, cultural, social, and political 'spaces' of urban Sao Paulo, Brazil's twentieth-century economic power house. Deftly exploring the labyrinths of state and private development agencies and drawing on an eclectic array of sources, Peixoto-Mehrtens offers fresh insight into Brazil's economic and social modernization in the twentieth century. Her tale of the construction of the Pacaembu Stadium during the late 1930s is a model microhistory of tangled social and political agendas. At the same time, she offers a new chapter in the deepening account of the role Brazil's middle class played in articulating modernity to a nation that in the early twenty-first century has become a rising global power. Recognizing that there was no unified middle-class political initiative, she penetratingly shows how bureaucrats and policy makers, acting from local conditions, interpreted and transformed the transnational traffic in theories of development and urban planning. --Brian P. Owensby, Professor and Chair, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia <p> How did middle-class architects and city planners, municipal employees and foreign-owned companies, politicians and intellectuals all contribute to reshaping the urban spaces in Sao Paulo, South America's largest city, in the 1930s and 40s? Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Sao Paulo, Brazil offers a fresh interpretation of the crucial role that middle sectors played in influencing urban life in a vital center of modernizing Brazil. Through the creative use of a wide array of archives, oral histories, and varied sources, this social and cultural history artfully analyzes the comple Author InformationCRISTINA PEIXOTO-MEHRTENS is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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