HISP 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Brazilian Miracle, Geopolitics, Autocracy
20 Apr 2017
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Progress and reaction: midcentury modernization in latin america. Outline of today"s lecture: review, challenges to modernization, changing ideologies around economic platforms, case study: brazil. Challenges to modernization: political and economic development go hand in hand in latin america, both these things have had difficulties in stabilization, different political groups and systems as well as problems with economic diversification. Idea which was initiated by jose bonifacio, dies and is then constructed during. Kubitscheck"s modernizing regime: flat, built in 41 months. Oscar niemeyer: physical representation of modern brazil, notion that they were trying to build a place that can represent brazil. Challenges to brazilian modernization and kubitscheck: large urban and middle class is a positive result of brazilian modernization. World heritage site in danger: fulfilled two standards of unesco (1/10 is the necessary requirement), representation of amazing human work, masterpiece of genius 2) architectural and technological masterpiece for the time.
