The Living City Available to Purchase

Part I, “The Living City,” explores the city’s expansion as part of its social and cultural history. Rather than looking at architecture or urbanism in isolation, it traces how larger issues like disease, transportation technologies, social mobility, inequality, and policy have shaped infrastructural and aesthetic changes in the city landscape. Chapters in this section discuss early urbanization; the expansion of neighborhoods; neighborhood associations and culture; planning and use of parks and plazas; housing; epidemics and disease; and debates over—and lived experiences within—the city’s informal neighborhoods and the contrasting neighborhoods of Greater Buenos Aires.