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Spectacular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space In Buenos Aires 1955-1973

Spectacular City: Transforming Culture, Consumption, and Space In Buenos Aires 1955-1973

by Laura Podalsky

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 230 PAGES

A social geography and cultural history of Buenos Aires and its transformation in the two decades after the collapse of the government of Juan Peron. She looks not only at architecture but also the city as represented in film, literature, and popular culture.  (ARG44, $24.95)


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