Civilizing Rio Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930

Name: Civilizing Rio Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930
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ISBN: 9780271028705

ISBN-10: 027102870X

ISBN-13: 9780271028705

Edition: 1996

Authors: Teresa Meade

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A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized the port, and improved sanitation, lighting, and public transportation. These changes made life worse, not better, for the majority of the city's residents, however; the laboring poor could no longer afford to live in the downtown, and the public-health plan did not extend to the peripheral areas where they were being forced to move. Their resistance is the focus of Teresa Meade's study.Meade details…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Reconsidering Victor Baltard



Classicism and the Architect's Education



Representing Paris



Decorated Construction



An Urban History of the Central Markets



Housing the City


Epilogue on Function and Typology in Baltard's Urban Architecture


Appendix: Career Chronology of Victor Baltard


Notes


Bibliography


Index