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Refined Material
"Beginning with the oil blowout in 1922 that is considered the moment that marked Venezuela's entry into a 'modern' era, Refined Material explores the integral relationship between Venezuelan oil industry and artistic production. In this groundbreaking study, Sean Nesselrode Moncada examines Venezuela's mid-century art and architecture in an argument that reinforces the inextricability of the rise of a capitalist and centralized state from life, activism, and art. Oil provided the crucible for national reinvention, ushering in a period of dizzying optimism and bitter disillusion as artists, architects, graphic designers, activists, and critics sought to define the terms of modernity. Looking at five different but interrelated case studies--a print magazine, a planned housing community, a luxury hotel, a kinetic museum installation, and a documentary film--this book brings forth a novel reading to the renowned Venezuelan modernist canon and reveals how the logic of refinement conditioned the terms of development and redefined our relationship to nature, matter, and one another"--
Barrio Rising
"In the mid-1950s, in an effort to modernize Venezuela, the military government razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). Over the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, and official neglect, inhabitants of the barrio learned to use their strategic location and symbolic tie to the promise of democracy in order to demand a better life. Granting legitimacy to the state through the vote but protesting its failings with violent street actions when necessary, they laid the foundation for an expansive understanding of democracy--both radical and electoral--whose features still resonate today"--Provided by publisher.
Business Venezuela
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Ciudad, urbanización y urbanismo en el siglo XX venezolano
La transformación del paisaje urbano, los elementos que son parte de ese complejo proceso y sus efectos son los temas que abordan los ensayos reunidos en Ciudad, urbanización y urbanismo en el siglo XX venezolano. La revisión y el balance de estos asuntos tienen como eje, por supuesto, las ideas de ciudad y urbanismo y, a la vez, toman en cuenta tres elementos: la revolución petrolera, la urbanización y la modernización, tríada esencial para caracterizar la centuria en análisis desde la perspectiva de los estudios urbanos, tal como explica Arturo Almandoz Marte, coordinador del volumen. El orden y desarrollo de los capítulos del libro responden "a procesos demográficos y territoriales, junto a componentes de la ciudad y sectores del urbanismo", incluyendo aspectos sobre el entramado social y los imaginarios asociados a los tópicos centrales de la investigación. El grupo de especialistas convocado en esta publicación ofrece una visión que atiende las consecuencias de la improvisación y la modernización accidentadas, sin dejar de resaltar los logros y grandes avances en la materia.
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Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela
Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create both potential and problems within settlements. To do so, it focuses on three metropolitan areas located in Venezuela’s Center-North region: Caracas, Maracay and Valencia, designated as "Camava." Considering three core topics, government and territorial administration, infrastructure and environment, as well as looking at the reciprocal impact, this book describes and analyzes the determinant variables that characterize the phenomenon of regional urbanization in this area and in the wider Global South. It includes documentary research, semi-structu...
