Abstract
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European contries represented the vanguard of urban planning ideas, they were centralities within the urban knowledge network. Several European urbanists travelled to Latin American, sometimes participating directly in urban plans, sometimes influencing local architects and urbanists by getting involved in seminars and lectures in those countries. Direct or sutil, those influences helped to transform not only Latin American capital cities, but also the whole academic and professional practice of urbanism in local levels, leading to generation of architects and urbanists that had planning principles inspired by European ideas. This paper is divided in five parts: Introduction; Methodology; Latin American capitals: the urge of planning; From Europe, with Love; Final thoughts. The first two parts mainly focus on giving brief explanations to set the stage for this paper and how it was methodologicaly structured. The third part aims to discuss the reality of Latin American capital cities during 1850-1950 and why there was a need to look for new solutions for them. The forth part discuss the urban planning ideas and traveler urbanists who came to Latin American in order to spread their knowledge; it includes maps and timelines that organizes informations such as places involveds, flows, ideas and urbanists that were protagonists in those tranfers. Finally, the last part discuss the results, including the reasons why the transfer of those ideas happened; and a temporal reading of facts and urban “trends” that affected Latin America during the period of interest.
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Fernanda CantarimPost-doctorate Researcher, Programa de Pós-graduação em Gestão Urbana, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Paraná, Brazil
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Knowledge Network; Latin-America
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