Latin American cities from a historical, transnational, and comparative perspective
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cities, Latin America, history, transnational perspective, comparative perspectiveAbstract
Since the post Second World War period, the transnational circulation of knowledge, experts, and urban policies has increased significantly between Latin America and the United States. Inter-American conferences on architecture, engineering, and planning as well as the creation of international funding for urban development and housing programs fostered a profuse network of contacts among urban reformers, technicians, and professionals. This has enabled the circulation of knowledge, models, asymmetrical power relations, and resources to produce new public policies. The conversation with Leandro Benmergui delves into the characteristics of this process, the challenges of studying it, and the forms, objects, and methodologies offered by the transnational perspective. The interview covers the comparative method as a strategy specific to the field, the concept of contact zone as a heuristic notion for analyzing the transnational scale, and the contributions of cultural history when dealing with exchanges or encounters in terms of the production of meanings and symbolic negotiations, power relations and forms of resistance.
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