C. Peixoto-Mehrtens 
Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil 
Crafting Modernity

This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil.

Daftar Isi

Public and Private: Crossed Paths in the Paulista Process of Urban Consolidation The Dynamics of Paulista Urban Institutions In the 1930s The Making of Urban Middle-Class Employees In the 1930s The Symbolic Construction of Paulista Urban Identity Politics and Urban Change: The Pacaembu Scheme, 1933-1940

Tentang Penulis

CRISTINA PEIXOTO-MEHRTENS is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, USA.