Buenos Aires has been called the Paris of Latin America, and the
comparison is just, for in style of life and city design Buenos
Aires resembles not only the City of Light but also the other great
world capitals--London, Rome, New York.
Buenos Aires: 400 Years attests to the long, diverse, and
fascinating life of this urban mass of some six hundred square
miles and eleven million inhabitants, which began as a tiny
palisaded outpost on the remote fringe of the Spanish Empire. That
colonial past is skillfully described here, but so too is the
future of Buenos Aires. Each essay reveals much about the
sociological and economic life of the city and the dynamic history
of its people.
This informative volume derives from a conference held at the
Library of Congress in September 1980, which was dedicated to the
400th anniversary of the founding of Buenos Aires. The conference
was jointly sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin and the
Municipality of Buenos Aires.
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