Life on the border : constructing the mexico/u.s. borderlands, 1961-1971 = Vida en la frontera : construyendo la frontera Mexico/E.U., 1961-1971 / German Pallares.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Pallares, German, author.

Contributor:

Leatherbarrow, David, degree supervisor.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Architecture, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American history.

Hispanic American studies.

Architecture--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Architecture.

Local Subjects:

Latin American history.

Hispanic American studies.

Architecture--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Architecture.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 82-12A.

Other Title:

Vida en la frontera : construyendo la frontera Mexico/E.U., 1961-1971

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.

Language Note:

English

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Summary:

In 1961, Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos launched a program that at- tempted to reinvigorate and develop the northern borderland region of Mexico. The Programa Nacional Fronterizo (National Border Program, PRONAF) sought, among its established goals, to: "improve the general environment of the border cities... Promote the constant raising of the cultural standards of the population...and stress the values of our history, folklore, language, culture and arts." Through projects of urban beautification, it would build the entrance gates of the country, and civic, cultural and commercial centers that would attract and maintain a certain type of tourism. I argue that Mario Pani's master plans not only sought to exalt Mexico's national identity through an architecture, at once both modern and yet appearing to be linked to an indigenous past; but that the few actual built projects were an architecture of hybridity, that of resistance to, and assimilation of, the post-war American way of life in the midst of Cold War politics. While the Mexican centralist government wanted to prevent the Americanization of the borderlands by building the last cultural frontline that would remind fronterizos of their mexicanidad, it also wanted to build "the biggest storefront" that, by leveraging on the purchasing power of its northern neighbor, would allow Mexico to be seen as an equal participant in the new world economy.

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: A.

Advisors: Leatherbarrow, David; Committee members: Daniel Barber; Barry Bergdoll.

Department: Architecture.

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798738618871

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