View of urbanización under construction
Description
Paved street in a residential area. To both sides of the street there are concrete houses with similar characteristics. They have flat roofs and some are surrounded by fences, others have balconies with concrete balustrades, and others have fabric curtains over their balconies. Other houses have semi-pitched roofs and semicircular arches. The front yards are covered with gravel without grass. In the background, you see a mountainous landscape.| Origin Name |
Abril 48 (14)
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| Relation |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín > Sección X, Serie 3, Colección Rafael Picó
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| Geographical Coverage |
Municipio desconocido | Unknown Municipality
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| Date |
194904
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloguing team. The date was provided by Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín (FLMM).
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| Descripción decolonial |
Paved streets and uniform concrete homes reflect a neoliberal dreamscape imported from the United States. The “American Dream, “centered on home ownership and car culture, was promoted by figures like Rafael Picó (the owner of this collection), in part, as an effort by North American businessmen to encourage the construction of concrete houses in Puerto Rico. Such scenes also served a global political agenda of the United States empire, aiming to counter communist economic models in Latin America and the Caribbean. We see a large tree-lined mountain peak rising in the distance: Suburban landscapes merge with Puerto Rico's ecology, where housing projects expand, creating a graft on the local cultural landscape.
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| Rights |
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| Editor |
Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín
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| Resource Format |
JPEG
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| Resource Type |
Image
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