[audiobook] Projected Art History: Biopics; Celebrity Culture; and the Popularizing of American Art (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics) by Doris Berger in Arts-Photography

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Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However; the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order; control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume - from such disciplines as architecture; urban planning; anthropology; urban design; cultural and urban studies and sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars; practitioners and governmental institutions; in and outside Latin America; on the question of informal cities.