Travels, cities, and exhibitions: The modernities seen and written by Gabriel Carrasco in 1889
Abstract
This article analyzes the representations of Gabriel Carrasco on modern travel, urban modernities and international exhibitions. Representative of a port city with strong aspirations for modernization, Carrasco was a keen observer of the European modernities and their comparisons with and translations to Argentina. His letters from the trip to the Universal Exhibition in Paris 1889 constitute an access for the analysis of the technical modernization of transport, the experience of space-time compression, the restructuring of major cities with modern appliances, the relevance of port infrastructure and the form of articulation-exhibition of these modernities. The text proposes to rebuild the local marks of the grid that Carrasco constructed to appreciate the European modernities and the contradiction and imbalance that these readings revealed about the establishment of a modernizing perspective applicable to the Argentine cities.
Keywords: mobility, modernities, technologies, cities, Argentina.
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