HISP 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Urban Renewal, Intellectual Capital, Yellow Fever
20 Apr 2017
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In the pampas: life was remarkably challenging. Italian workers were mainly illiterate, unskilled, poor, many tenant farmers as immigrants working as indentured servants. Idea of temporary did not plan to say in pampas, but rather always with the hope to move into urban areas: dual citizens between argentina and italy. Work in the city: growth in the manufacturing sector including packing houses (particularly meat packaging) which was embedded in the national imaginary of argentina. Lima: la victoria seen as a suburban area in the beginning around the city where most immigrants stayed, this sub-section is actually now a part of the city, had to expand into surrounding areas. Santiago de chile: city was relatively underdeveloped and by the end of the century, transformations of. Santa lucia into a public park (part of urban renewal project: canalization of mapocho river in the city. Bogota: transportation building of roads, reconstruction to accommodate new technology.
