The (Ir)responsable Vision of the Dependant City

Abstract

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Dependency economic Theory provided a complete generation of Latin-American thinkers with a wide range of cultural arguments through which everything that happened in this region was explained. From the previously mentioned ideological vision, or to a great extent due to it, the urban architectural thinking in Latin-America built its historic and historiographical assertions based on the concept “cultural dependence”. This article reflects on the ideological and historiographical consequences of such imaginary taking some aspects of Marina Waisman´s thinking into consideration.