Constitutional Modernism

Book Review| August 01 2018 Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959 Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959. By Hyde, Timothy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. viii, 371 pp. Paper, $35.00. Valerie Fraser Valerie Fraser University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 553–554. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933919 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Valerie Fraser; Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 553–554. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933919 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search The interconnectedness of the ideas of the city and the civil, the city and citizenship, has been around since classical antiquity, as the linguistic proximity between the terms indicates. Cicero was perhaps the first to articulate the concept of the civitas, a social entity that also implied some sort of spatial as well as legal organization, and in architectural history it has long been an underlying tenet that the construction of urban space held social responsibilities and expectations. This idea has had particular traction in Latin America. It was energetically upheld by the Spaniards during the early colonial period: sixteenth-century chroniclers regularly used the phrase “orden y justicia” to describe what their newly founded grid-plan towns would achieve. These same chroniclers also used the phrase, with surprise and respect, when they first encountered Inca towns and villages, reading the visible urban... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 You do not currently have access to this content

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