The invention of the 'third-world city': urban planning in Latin America in the 1960s and early 1970s
| Autor | Katharina Schembs |
| Cargo | Katharina Schembs: PhD. Assistant Professor, University of Cologne, Department of Iberian and Latin American History, Cologne, NRW, Germany. |
| Páginas | 77-92 |
Esboços, Florianópolis, v. 28, n. 47, p. 77-92, jan./abr. 2021.
ISSN 2175-7976 DOI https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2021.e75358
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THE INVENTION OF THE “THIRD-
WORLD CITY”: URBAN PLANNING IN
LATIN AMERICA IN THE 1960S AND
EARLY 1970S
Katharina Schembsa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9146-5959
Email: katharina.schembs@uni-koeln.de
a University of Cologne, Department of Iberian and Latin American History,
Cologne, NRW, Germany
histórias em contextos globais
DOSSIÊ
História urbana global
Esboços, Florianópolis, v. 28, n. 47, p. 77-92, jan./abr. 2021.
ISSN 2175-7976 DOI https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2021.e75358
78/226
ABSTRACT
While the rst half of the 20th century was mainly characterized by the importation of urban planning
models from Europe and the USA to Latin America, the 1960s represent a turning point: In the context
of dierent development theories, local planners rst started to emphasize the supposed structural
similarities of Latin American cities and then their parallels with other cities of the Global South. Social
theorists, economists and urbanists of the time conceptualized cities not only as litmus tests of the
developmental stage of the individual country, but also as motors to enable economic progress. Analyzing
dierent Latin American architectural and urban planning publications, the article traces references to
other Latin American and “Third-World” countries that grew in size in the course of the 1960s. In some
cases, this even led to South-South contacts in the eld of urban planning to the research of which this
article is a start.
KEYWORDS
Urban planning. Latin America. Third World.
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