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Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires Nicholas D'Avella
Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires
Nicholas D'Avella
Nicholas D’Avella offers an ethnographic reflection on the value of buildings in post-crisis Buenos Aires, showing how everyday practices transform buildings into politically, economically, and socially consequential objects, and arguing that such local forms of value and practice suggest possibilities for building better futures.
312 pages, 55 illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 15, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9781478006305 |
| Publishers | Duke University Press |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 152 × 22 mm · 449 g |
| Language | English |