Abstract：From the early years of the discovery, the Spanish conquerors established a network of cities and towns carefully planned according to royal instructions. Angel Rama’s The Lettered City (La Ciudad Letrada, 1984) provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. The essay argues that the conquest was the first epic of world globalization, based on the rational and orderly checkerboard plan combined with forced evangelization. In the 19th century, behind the modernizing post-independence French influence, the national and liberal elites continued to act as internal colonial powers by further rejecting native and Indian cultures. In the 1930s, the myth of progress took over. Latin America became a stronghold of an architectural and urban modernity imported from Europe that was often be brutal and destructive; yet, its architects invented an “other” mo
吉恩·弗朗索瓦·勒琼，赵纪军 译. 拉丁美洲“文明之城”的秩序愿景[J]. 新建筑, 2015, 33(6): 4-13.
Jean-Fran?ois Lejeune,Tr. by Zhao Jijun. Dreams of Order in the Latin American Lettered City. New Architecture, 2015, 33(6): 4-13.
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