José Luis Romero y la "Ciudad Latinoamericana"

Abstract

Within the cycle of the “Latin American city”, understood as a category of thought that emerged and was held between the end of 1940 and mid 1970’s, in the framework of the urban explosion, to the need to define a continental quality for the city Latin America, the cities and ideas (1976), José Luis Romero, is a key part. 

The author studies from the city, the political, economic and social history of Latin America. For it, the categories ciudad-campo, mark Latin American history, and, from them, analyzes the relationship between ideas and the concrete reality. In the chapter “The bourgeois cities”, shows how the period 1880-1930, urban life was a reflection of the appropriateness or not to the new global economy.