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Arturo Almandoz
Planning Latin America’s Capital Cities 1850-1950 [PDF ebook]

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In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America’s capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new per

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9781136767210 ● Editor Arturo Almandoz ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2002 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2651803 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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