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Modernizing Landscapes of Urban Poverty: Housing, Citizenship, and Popular Mobilization in the Latin American City

Conference on Latin American History 44
Monday, January 5, 2009: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Park Suite 2 (Sheraton New York)
Chair:
Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland at College Park
Papers:
"A Key to the Present": Urban Renewal and the Modernization of Housing in Buenos Aires, 1964–73
Leandro D. Benmergui, University of Maryland
The Community Movement of Slums in Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s: From the Fight for the Urban Ground to the Negotiation for the Urbanization of the Slum Quarters
Mario Brum, Universidade Federal Fluminense
"A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote": Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978–83
Alejandro Velasco, New York University
Comment:
Bryan McCann, Georgetown University
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