The Caracas avenue, a space toward the modernity : 1933-1948.
The city in use as a social product that keeps images of all its times and serves as entity regulator of a geographical space and of a conglomerate of inhabitants, keeps the experiences, illusions and desires of an elite that in some way, goes in agreement transforming with their economic interests,...
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Universidad Católica de Colombia
2008
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| Online Access: | https://revistadearquitectura.ucatolica.edu.co/article/view/777 |
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| Summary: | The city in use as a social product that keeps images of all its times and serves as entity regulator of a geographical space and of a conglomerate of inhabitants, keeps the experiences, illusions and desires of an elite that in some way, goes in agreement transforming with their economic interests, political and aesthetic perceptions. The Caracas Avenue appears as a historical text to read and to interpret. With this road it is contributed to modernize the city and a frontier is set among social classes. The aspirations of the emergent elite are completed as a search to transform urban space in the way of a beautiful park way, a ravine, a boulevard or a garden avenue. |
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