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Author D'Avella, Nicholas, 1978- author.

Title Concrete dreams : practice, value, and built environments in post-crisis Buenos Aires / Nicholas D'Avella
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)
Contents Concrete dreams -- Crisis histories, brick futures: economic storytelling and investments in real estate -- A market in square meters: numbers and narrative in real estate market analysis -- Barrio ecologies: parks, patios, and the politics of articulation -- Recoding the city: plans, codes, and the politics of voice -- Architecture is for everyone: bodies, drawing, and the politics of care -- Epilogue: Enduring values
Summary "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 the neighborhoods and city they care for 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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Boom gnd
Subject Construction industry -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 21st century
Construction industry -- Social aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- 21st century
Construction industry -- Economic aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Construction industry
Construction industry -- Economic aspects
Construction industry -- Social aspects
Bauwirtschaft
Soziale Situation
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Argentina -- Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019980027
ISBN 1478005114
9781478005117