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De-centring Managua: post-earthquake reconstruction and revolution in Nicaragua
The reconstruction of Managua following the 1972 earthquake laid bare the contradictions of modernization theory that justified the US alliance with Latin American dictators in the name of democracy in the Cold War. Based on an idealized model of urban development, US planners developed a plan to 'decentralize' both the city of Managua and the power of the US-backed Somoza dictatorship. In the process, they helped augment the power of the dictator and create a city its inhabitants found intolerable. The collective rejection of the city, the dictator and his alliance with the United States, helped propel Nicaragua toward its 1979 revolution and turned the country into a Cold War battleground.
De-centring Managua: post-earthquake reconstruction and revolution in Nicaragua
The reconstruction of Managua following the 1972 earthquake laid bare the contradictions of modernization theory that justified the US alliance with Latin American dictators in the name of democracy in the Cold War. Based on an idealized model of urban development, US planners developed a plan to 'decentralize' both the city of Managua and the power of the US-backed Somoza dictatorship. In the process, they helped augment the power of the dictator and create a city its inhabitants found intolerable. The collective rejection of the city, the dictator and his alliance with the United States, helped propel Nicaragua toward its 1979 revolution and turned the country into a Cold War battleground.
De-centring Managua: post-earthquake reconstruction and revolution in Nicaragua
DAVID JOHNSON LEE (author)
Urban history ; 42
2015
Article (Journal)
English
Geschichte , Zeitschrift , Stadt , Gesellschaft , Kultur
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