This work analyzes the three-way articulation involving the individual, domestic space, and the state at the start of an era of state-sponsored programs of economic advancement for the needy: specifically, the construction of public housing for workers, starting early in the Peronist administration. While his 1946 electoral victory was based on a cross-class coalition, Juan Perón’s public discourse aimed especially at articulating the aspirations of workers as they sought to improve their lot. New state-subsidized housing encompassed a wide spectrum of such advancements, representing what upper-and middle-class urban dwellers had long taken for granted, such as heat, running water, and durable structures. The study focuses on Los Perales, a multiple-family housing project completed in 1949 on the western edge of the city of Buenos Aires in the area of Mataderos. Sources include federal and municipal archives and official publications, newspapers and architectural periodical literature, a wide array of secondary sources,...
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November 01 2007
Viviendas para el pueblo: Espacio urbano y sociabilidad en el barrio Los Perales, 1946 – 1955
Viviendas para el pueblo: Espacio urbano y sociabilidad en el barrio Los Perales, 1946 – 1955
. By Aboy, Rosa. Sección de Obras Historia
. Buenos Aires
: Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina / Universidad de San Andrés
, 2005
. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography
. 195
pp. Paper
.Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (4): 778–780.
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Mark D. Szuchman; Viviendas para el pueblo: Espacio urbano y sociabilidad en el barrio Los Perales, 1946 – 1955. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 November 2007; 87 (4): 778–780. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2007-071
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