Abstract Barrios

The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities

Bibliographic Data

ID19919166
AuthorsJohana Londoño (0000-0003-4618-1524, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages328
Publication date2020-09-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAbstract Barrios (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781478012276
OpenAlexW3055077914
Open LibraryOL34136896M
ISBN9781478012276
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In Abstract Barrios Johana Londoño examines how Latinized urban landscapes are made palatable for white Americans. Such Latinized urban landscapes, she observes, especially appear when whites feel threatened by concentrations of Latinx populations, commonly known as barrios. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis of barrio built environments, Londoño shows how over the past 70 years urban planners, architects, designers, policy makers, business owners, and other "brokers" took abstracted elements from barrio design-such as spatial layouts or bright colors-to safely "Latinize" cities and manage a longstanding urban crisis of Latinx belonging. The built environments that resulted ranged from idealized notions of authentic Puerto Rican culture in the interior design of New York City's public housing in the 1950s, created to diminish concerns over Puerto Rican settlement, to the "Fiesta Marketplace" in downtown Santa Ana, California, built to counteract white flight in the 1980s. Ultimately, Londoño demonstrates that abstracted barrio culture and aesthetics sustain the economic and cultural viability of normalized, white, and middle-class urban spaces

Geography · Meteorology · Political science · Visibility · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · City planning · Ethnic identity · ethnic relations · Gentrification · Hispanic American neighborhoods · Hispanic americans · History · Social aspects · Social life and customs · Urban policy

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