The political construction of Medellín’s global image: Strategies of replacement, erasure and disconnection via urban and architectural interventions

Deluchi, C

The political construction of Medellín’s global image: Strategies of replacement, erasure and disconnection via urban and architectural interventions

Deluchi, C

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Citation:: The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, 2022, 1, pp. 395-415
Issue Date:: 2022-11-30

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dc.contributor.author	Deluchi, C https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2413-3927
dc.contributor.editor	Bobic, N
dc.contributor.editor	Haghighi, F
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-28T21:34:57Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-28T21:34:57Z
dc.date.issued	2022-11-30
dc.identifier.citation	The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, 2022, 1, pp. 395-415
dc.identifier.isbn	9781003112464
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/168757
dc.description.abstract	Through the examination of physical and photographic images of Medellín’s architectural phenomena, this chapter explores how politics operates via representations of urban transformation. While the images belong to dominant state-led and media accounts of transformation, their analysis detect foundational narrative parts purposely left absent from the city’s urban discourse through strategies of replacement via sporting facilities, erasure via transport and mobility services, and disconnection via globally recognizable commercial districts. This study reveals how strategies of image construction create a contrast between state-of-the-art architectural interventions and their context (replacement), community tourism and the reality of everyday life (erasure), and marginalized neighborhoods on the city fringe and affluent housing precincts (disconnection).
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dc.title	The political construction of Medellín’s global image: Strategies of replacement, erasure and disconnection via urban and architectural interventions
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
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Through the examination of physical and photographic images of Medellín’s architectural phenomena, this chapter explores how politics operates via representations of urban transformation. While the images belong to dominant state-led and media accounts of transformation, their analysis detect foundational narrative parts purposely left absent from the city’s urban discourse through strategies of replacement via sporting facilities, erasure via transport and mobility services, and disconnection via globally recognizable commercial districts. This study reveals how strategies of image construction create a contrast between state-of-the-art architectural interventions and their context (replacement), community tourism and the reality of everyday life (erasure), and marginalized neighborhoods on the city fringe and affluent housing precincts (disconnection).

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