Landscapes of Confusion: The Urban Imaginaries of Néstor García Canclini and Kevin Lynch
Author: Brooksbank-Jones, Anny
Source: Critical Studies, Transculturation. Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America. Edited by Felipe Hernández, Mark Millington and Iain Borden , pp. 92-108(17)
Publisher: Rodopi
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Abstract:
The essay contrasts two examples of the use of photographs to chart residents' imaginary relations with the urban environment. The first is Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City (1960), which explores the place of visuality in the construction of cities, contrasting residents' distorted image of the metropolis with the more precise and homogeneous representations of planners. In La ciudad de los viajeros: Travesías e imaginarios urbanos (1996), Néstor García Canclini and his collaborators use photographs to chart how residents configure Mexico City in their imagination as they travel across it. Unlike Lynch, however, the authors are concerned less with accuracy or orderliness than with the broader political implications of the individual and collective fictions they encounter. Without new models of citizenship, they argue, urban planners and politicians alike will remain unable to promote new urban imaginaries based on a less alienated, more solidary, vision of the capital.Document Type: Research article
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