Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires

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.

• | Author: Nicholas D'Avella
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: November 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1478006307
• | ISBN-13: 9781478006305