Extract from the preface :
This book is a considerably revised version of my doctoral dissertation. I wanted it to deal with ongoing social trends instead of the merely exotic or the archaic, so often pursued by anthropologists... Brasília…
Abstract from the publisher :
‘From nothing; from nothing to construction.’
It was in these almost epically laconic terms that Marcel Gautherot recalled the formidable undertaking to which he committed himself in the late 1950s –…
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Virgínia de Almeida Bessa, À escuta da cidade: Pixinguinha e a paisagem sonora carioca da Primeira República
Luisa Fernanda Sanchez, Trasplantar el árbol de la sabiduría:…
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…