Urban Fragments in América / the Americas

Harvard GSD

From Buenos Aires to New York, the cities of the New World have been sites of speculation and experimentation, as heterotopias, techno-political dreams, or revolutionary enclaves. In this lecture, we discuss the main cultural, economic, and political discourses that shaped the modernity of the Americas and the spatial configurations they prompted in urban and architectural design. By comparing these responses as a series of case studies, the course assembles a modern hemispheric history of…