Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction City/Art: Setting the Scene 1
5. Part 1 Urban Designs
6. What is a City? 37
7. Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too 61
8. The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk 85
9. Part 2 Street Signs
10. City, Art, Politics 115
11. The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of Aesthetics 127
12. Miami Remake 145
13. The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction 165
14. Part 3 Traffic
15. On Maps and Malls 185
16. Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro 211
17. Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness 233
18. Bibliography 251
19. Contributors 267
20. Index 271