Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil : Crafting Modernity

This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of Sao Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century Sao Paulo, Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of Sao Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. It centers on the influence of middle-class aspirations, morals, and manners in setting the tone of political discourse and competition during the critical years of 1930-45. The book examines the development of local institutions and the history of urban planning and design in the city of Sao Paulo to explore socio-cultural ideas and practices reflected in these middle-class professionals' work "Urban Space and National Identity in Twentieth-Century São Paulo, Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil. It centers on the influence of middle-class aspirations, morals, and manners in setting the tone of political discourse and competition during the critical years of 1930-45. The book examines the development of local institutions and the history of urban planning and design in the city of São Paulo to explore sociocultural ideas and practices reflected in these middle-class professionals' work. Crafting Urban Space could be adopted in Latin American survey courses and History of Brazil seminars as well as Urban History and World Civilization classes. The book will be useful for specialists and newcomers alike"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-12 Public and Private: Crossed Paths in the Paulista Process of Urban Consolidation....Pages 13-39 The Dynamics of Paulista Urban Institutions in the 1930s....Pages 41-81 The Making of Urban Middle-Class Employees in the 1930s....Pages 83-109 The Symbolic Construction of a Paulista Urban Identity....Pages 111-138 Politics and Urban Change: Building the Pacaembu Stadium....Pages 139-162 Conclusion....Pages 163-171 Back Matter....Pages 173-273