(Re)constructing a Brazilian model city : discourses of exceptionalism in making and imagining Curitiba, 1900-1945

My dissertation examines the putative success of Curitiba, the Brazilian capital of Paraná, and seeks to understand how it came to be touted as the model city of Brazil. The standard explication for Curitiba’s success credits the power of a single city agency, the Urban Planning and Research Institu...

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Main Author: Ross, Evan Mark
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/23253