Images and Ideas about the Latin American Metropolis

Abstract

Review of Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato, The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021, 324 pages (ISBN 978-1-60606-694-2). This large-format book traces the history of the metropolitan transformations of the great Latin American cities and is accompanied by an impressive corpus of historical images.

Keywords

• metropolis
• Latin America
• images