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When American planner and scholar Francis Violich published his book Cities of Latin America (1944) - in some respects an introduction, for the North American audience, to the unknown urban reality of the rest of the two continents - he repeatedly praised the gracious 'Old World'character of the main Latin American metropolises, comparing it to the lack of genuine urban style in most North American cities.
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academic urbanism, imaginarios europeos, urban surgery, colonial grid, civic district, urban ideas, modern urban planning, building aesthetic, urban modernization, modern urbanism, diagonal roads, foreign architects, desarrollo urbano, bourgeois city, checkerboard design
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Latin America, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, United States, Costa Rica, New York, North American, Sao Paulo, Sdo Paulo, Santiago de Chile, World War, Documentos de Arquitectura Nacional, Biblioteca Nacional, Silva Pereira, Pereira Passos, Revista de Arquitectura, Arquitectura Latinoamericana, Plaza Mayor, Universidad de Chile, Archivo Roberto Segre, Central Park, New World, Plaza de Mayo, Guzmdn Blanco, South America
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