03501cam a2200409 i 4500 pucpr 20260224123025.0 150915s2016 txuab b s001 0 eng c 2015035643 9781477309414 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781477310243 (library e-book) 9781477310250 (nonlibrary e-book) pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda spa pcc CARIBET HT384.S63 C67 2016 307.760 23 307.760 Correa, Felipe, author. Beyond the City : resource extraction urbanism in South America. / Felipe Correa. txt First edition Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016. x, 166 p. ill. ; maps ; 26 cm book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Index. Bibliography. Contents: Introduction : shaping resource extraction 1 -- Chapter 1 A regional capital : Belo Horizonte 13 -- Chapter 2 A mining town constellation : María Elena 39 -- Chapter 3 Petrol encampments : Judibana and El Tablazo 65 -- Chapter 4 A new industrial frontier : Ciudad Guayana 89 -- Chapter 5 Pioneering modernity : Vila Piloto 111 -- Epilogue : the legacy of resource extraction urbanism and the future of the South American Hinterland 137 -- Notes 145 -- Bibliography 155 -- Index 163 -- During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives -- Urbanization South America City planning South America Urban renewal South America Natural resources South America lcc 6 1st ed. HT384.S63 General C67 2016 254616 254616 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2016-08-30 amazon 31.41 1 General HT384.S63 C67 2016 91000000049528 2024-01-31 16:42:56 2024-01-24 1 41.41 0000-00-00 6