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Buenos Aires, 1910 Centenary of the Nation

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Argentina; Buenos Aires; Enrique Gómez Carrillo; Haussmann; Slums; Walter Benjamin

In 1910 Buenos Aires was the scene for the celebrations of the Centenary of the Argentine nation. This was also the moment in which the capital city staged the consolidation of its urban modernity (Gorelik 2005: 146). The modern growth of the city of Buenos Aires, which had gone from having 177,787 inhabitants in 1869 to 950,891 in 1904, was inaugurated with the opening up of the Avenida de Mayo – with its cafés, art nouveau, neoclassical, and eclectic buildings, trees, and streetlights – on July 9, 1894. Commenced under the supervision of the political conservative Torcuato de Alvear in 1885, the expansion of the avenue was contemporaneous with the creation of the Plaza de Mayo, the Parque de la Recoleta, and the projects for Puerto Madero. As such it formed part of an urban plan for modernizing the city center inspired by Baron Haussmann’s earlier remodeling of Paris during the empire of...

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    Agnese Codebò

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Codebò, A. (2018). Buenos Aires, 1910 Centenary of the Nation. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_28-1

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