Llorens Torres
Description
View of one of the buildings of the government housing project, Luis Llorens Torres, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Three-story building, the design combines cantilevered balconies and balconies with guardrails. It is enclosed with a cyclone fence.| Origin Name |
Folio 0014, Caja 146_R
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| Relation |
Archivo General de Puerto Rico > Colección Particular Felisa Rincón de Gautier (CP 85) > Serie Fotografías > Tema Obras Públicas > Caja 0146
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| Geographical Coverage |
San Juan
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| Date |
[1946-1968?]
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| Descriptive Notes |
Title assigned by the cataloguing team.
Back. Stamp: "General Archive of Puerto Rico box #146 photo #14" Inscription: "Llorens Torres"
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| Descripción decolonial |
This is the Luis Llorens Torres housing project, built in 1953. This urban housing project served to provide housing for thousands of Puerto Ricans from the slums and the countryside. Although it initially had good intentions of offering affordable housing to the most economically disadvantaged Puerto Ricans, it certainly had a serious impact on the communities as it displaced families to new spaces uprooted from their community roots. In the front of the development we see that its surroundings are paved, thus creating a Fordist urban planning, that is, dependent on the automobile and isolated from the collective land. The spatial dynamics created a long-term marginalization of the residents of the Luis Llorens Torres housing project, in which racialized subjects are systematically discriminated against when it comes to obtaining employment opportunities and economic growth.
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| Rights |
English Rights. (hyperlink)
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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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