EL PROYECTO URBANO MODERNO DE LAS "COMPANY TOWNS" EN EL PERÚ: LA OROYA Y TALARA, 1940 - 1970
Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2020. b/w and color plates, maps, plans, bibliographical references (pages 217-226), b/w pict. fldg. wrps. Item #117665
ISBN: 9789972466700
The mining company Cerro de Pasco Corporation (CPC) located in the town of La Oroya in the Andean mountains and the oil company International Petroleum Company (IPC) in Talara in the northern coast of Peru have generally been considered and studied as "a symbol of the backwardness of a country incapable of exploiting its national resources, under the control of foreign companies". Considered as development setbacks that coexisted with a process of urban modernization, these companies tried to become instruments of development change through "company towns" in the mid-20th century. Product of her doctoral thesis, Edith Aranda Dioses deals comparatively with the social and cultural dimension of these (now expropriated) enterprises, which in the past have been largely ignored. She studies how both "company towns" had different trajectories, the latter (IPC) being largely successful in implementing a rational urban model, while the former (CPC) represented a case of incomplete modernity. CONTENTS: Miradas a la modernidad del siglo XX / José Ignacio López Soria -- Lo urbano moderno en una sociedad tradicional / Nicolás Lynch -- Introducción -- Capítulo I. Lo urbano y lo moderno: consideraciones teóricas -- Capítulo II. Modernidad y morfología urbana -- Capítulo III. El proyecto urbano moderno de La Oraya, "company town" minera -- Capítulo IV. El proyecto urbano moderno de Talara, ciudad empresa petrolera -- Capítulo V. El comparativo del proyecto urbano moderno de las "company towns" en el Perú: los casos de La Oroya y Talara -- Conclusiones. LIMITED EDITION OF 500.
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