Artifacts of revolution : architecture, society, and politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen.

Main entry:

Olsen, Patrice Elizabeth, 1958-

Title & Author:

Artifacts of revolution : architecture, society, and politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940 / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen.

Publication:

Description:

xviii, 281 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Latin American silhouettes

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.
La revolución constructiva (1920-1928) -- Gobernar a la ciudad es servirla: the maximato and further institutionalization of the revolution -- La ciudad, la casa de todos -- The city and the expanding revolution -- The cityscape and new conceptions of the state -- A home for the revolution: patterns and meaning in residential development -- The city and the revolution, in aggregate.

Summary:

"This history argues that we can understand important facets of the Mexican Revolution by analyzing the architecture designed and built in Mexico City during the formative years from 1920 to 1940. These artifacts, Patrice Olsen convincingly demonstrates, allow us to trace and understand the path of the consolidation of the Mexican Revolution. Each individual building or development, by providing indelible evidence of the process by which the revolution evolved into a government, offers important insights into Mexican history. Seen in aggregate, they reveal an ongoing urban process at work; seen as a "composition," they reveal changes over time in societal values and aspirations and in the direction of the revolution."--Jacket.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

9780742554207 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0742554201 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Political aspects Mexico Mexico City.
Architecture Aspect politique Mexique Mexico.
Architecture Political aspects.
Buildings.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Architektur
Gesellschaft
Politik
Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Influence.
Mexico City (Mexico) Buildings, structures, etc.
Mexico History 1910-1946.
Mexique Histoire 1910-1920 (Révolution) Influence.
Mexique Histoire 1910-1946.
Mexico.
Mexico Mexico City.
Mexiko

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Latin American silhouettes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295721
Call No.: BIB 242082
Status: Available

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