Rural Utopia and Water Urbanism: The Modern Village in Francos Spain

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This title studies the reconstruction of the towns devastated during the Civil War.

The consequent strategy of interior colonization entailed the construction of more than 300 new villages or pueblos, each designed as a 'rural utopia' under the national-catholic regime.

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Jean-Franois Lejeune, PhD, is a professor of architecture, urban design, and history at the University of Miami School of Architecture. His research ranges from Latin American architecture and urbanism to twentieth-century vernacular modernism in Spain and Italy. His publications include The Making of Miami Beach 1933 1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon (Rizzoli, 2001), Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005), Sitte, Hegemann, and the Metropolis (Routledge, 2009), Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean (Routledge, 2010), and Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940 1970 (Birkhuser, 2021). He is the secretary of Docomomo US/Florida and was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 2007.