Browsing by Author "Massidda, Adriana Laura"
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Conflicting conceptions of domestic space: Shanty towns and state housing in contemporary Argentine cinema
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)This article analyses the ways in which two contemporary Argentine films, Villa (Ezio Massa, 2013) and Diagnóstico esperanza (César González, 2013), portray domestic space. It argues that, in different ways, they both ... -
Cómo nombrar a la informalidad urbana: Una revisión de las definiciones en uso, sus implicaciones analíticas y su alcance
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)Villas, asentamientos, barriadas, slums, shantytowns: What are the definitions we have chosen to talk about the informal city, and what sense do we assign when using them? A challenge regarding the terms used refers to ... -
Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America
This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. This is to say that the essays within the collection ... -
Design Exchanges in Mid-Twentieth Century Buenos Aires: The Programme Parque Almirante Brown and its Process of Creative Appropriation
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)This article offers a critical analysis of planning and housing design in mid-twentieth century Buenos Aires, Argentina, within the wider global context of modern design and architecture. In particular, the article focuses ... -
El Parque Almirante Brown y el Team 10 como proceso de apropiación creativa (Buenos Aires, 1961-1976)
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)Este artículo ofrece elementos para una revisión crítica de la arquitectura y el planeamiento modernos de mediados de siglo XX en la ciudad de Buenos Aires en relación con el debate internacional de la época a través del ... -
Grassroots Agency: Participation and Conflict in Buenos Aires Shantytowns seen through the Pilot Plan for Villa 7 (1971–1975)
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)In 1971, after more than a decade of national and municipal policies aimed at the top-down removal of shantytowns, the Buenos Aires City Council approved the Plan Piloto para la Relocalización de Villa 7 (Pilot Plan for ... -
La representación urbanística de los espacios informales. Las villas miseria de Buenos Aires (1947-1965)
Elinbaum, Pablo; Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)In this article we aim to redefine the notion of informal space through the analysis of their cartographic representations as produced by urban planners. To this end we undertake a historical review of three key planning ... -
Lo político en lo urbano. Pobreza urbana en el pasado reciente. Villa Jardín, 1958-1967
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)The present article takes a case study – Villa Jardín, Buenos Aires, 1958-1967 – as a starting point to analyze different ways of political practice urban space, especially in contexts of urban poverty. The article focuses ... -
Negociaciones, permanencia y construcción cotidiana en villas (Villas La Lonja, Cildáñez y Castañares, Buenos Aires, 1958-1967)
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)This article offers a study of three Buenos Aires shantytowns – La Lonja, Villa Cildáñez and Villa Castañares – in historical perspective in order to analyze processes of spatial transformation in urban informal spaces ... -
Participación en la construcción popular del hábitat. Una revisión del Plan Piloto para Villa 7 en Buenos Aires
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)This article takes a case study located in Buenos Aires, the Plan Piloto para la Relocalización de Villa 7, 1971-1975 (Pilot Plan for the Relocation of Shantytown #7) as the main focus for revisiting the concepts of ... -
Pick-up football in the canchita de San Blas
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The Plan de Emergencia (1956): Housing Shortage in Buenos Aires Then and Now
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)This article examines the first urban plan in Argentina to address informal settlements. It will be argued that this plan served as a template for later proposals and encouraged a particular approach towards the informal ... -
Shantytowns, Housing and State Order: The Plan de Emergencia in 1950s Argentina
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)In September 1955 in Argentina a coup d’état backed by a heterogeneous coalition of military and civil actors overthrew the elected government of Juan Domingo Perón and set out to profoundly alter most of his policies. One ... -
The Spatiality of Desire in Martin Oesterheld’s La multitud and Luis Ortega’s Dromómanos
Massidda, Adriana Laura; Geraghty, Niall (Book chapter)Drawing on the traditions of cinéma vérité and direct cinema, Martín Oesterheld’s La multitud (2014) is an observational documentary that depicts the various urban typologies of the south of Buenos Aires. The film deploys ... -
Utopian Visions for Buenos Aires Shantytowns: Collective Imaginaries of Housing Rights, Upgrading and Eviction (1956-2013)
Massidda, Adriana Laura (Article)This article explores three utopian visions which have shaped past and present experiences within Buenos Aires shantytowns: those of upgraded shantytowns, of universal housing, and of a city where shantytowns have been ...