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Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910-1942 (Hardcover)
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Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910-1942 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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Buenos Aires is Argentina's national capital and largest city.
Throughout the twentieth century the capital and its surrounding
suburbs have contained between one quarter and one third of the
nation's population. It has served as Argentina's main economic and
political center, and has dominated the rest of the country as few
other capital cities have. This book traces the history of the city
from 1910 to the early 1940s, a period of continued growth and
expansion. It focuses in particular on the role of politics and
municipal government in directing the city's growth, highlighting
elections, party competition, and debates over important issues of
public works, public transportation, and public utilities. The
political story, in turn, takes place within the larger context of
urban development over the course of these decades. Not only is it
the first comprehensive treatment of this period in Buenos Aires
history; it is also one of the few works to deal with the role of
local government in the general literature on Latin American
urbanization. In preparing the book, Walter worked extensively with
the minutes of city council meetings, the national congressional
record, the observations of foreign officials and visitors, popular
magazines and newspapers, and a wide variety of other matenals.
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