Concrete Dreams

Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires

Nicholas D'Avella (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0630-5 (ISBN)

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In Concrete Dreams Nicholas D’Avella examines the changing social and economic lives of buildings in the context of a construction boom following Argentina's political and economic crisis of 2001. D’Avella tells the stories of small-scale investors who turned to real estate as an alternative to a financial system they no longer trusted, of architects who struggled to maintain artistic values and political commitments in the face of the ongoing commodification of their work, and of residents-turned-activists who worked to protect their neighborhoods and city from being overtaken by new development. Such forms of everyday engagement with buildings, he argues, produce divergent forms of value that persist in tension with hegemonic forms of value. In the dreams attached to built environments and the material forms in which those dreams are articulated-from charts and graphs to architectural drawings, urban planning codes, and tango lyrics-D’Avella finds a blueprint for building livable futures in which people can survive alongside and even push back against the hegemony of capitalism.

Nicholas D’Avella is an anthropologist who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Concrete Dreams 1
1. Crisis Histories, Brick Futures: Economic Storytelling and Investments in Real Estate 32
2. A Market in Square Meters: Numbers and Narrative in Real Estate Market Analysis 67
3. Barrio Ecologies: Parks, Patios, and the Politics of Articulation 94
4. Recoding the City: Plans, Codes, and the Politics of Voice 140
5. Architecture is for Everyone: Bodies, Drawing, and the Politics of Care 179
Epilogue. Enduring Values 222
Notes 235
Works Cited 255
Index 271

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	55 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0630-7 / 1478006307
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0630-5 / 9781478006305
Zustand	Neuware