Abstract

BOTTI, Giaime. Between Corporatist Conflicts and International Models (1920-1947). The Discourse on Urbanism in Colombia. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2019, vol.29, n.3, pp.175-182. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v29n3.65835.

This article proposes a reading on the construction process of the discourse on urbanism in Colombia in the first half of the XX century. Starting from numerous hemerographic sources, it analyses the debate on the introduction of urbanism as a specific and autonomous knowledge and the corporatist conflicts generated by this process. Secondly, it investigates the international models discussed in magazines and in Bogotá architecture faculty of Colombian National University. While looking at imaginaries and experts circulation between Latin America, Europe and USA, this text highlights the different time of reception, the specific role of involved actors and editorial spaces, the unexpected and ephemeral alliances built in a framework of professional conflicts.

Keywords : history of urbanism; reception; knowledge transfer; magazine; Colombia.

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