Luis Aponte Pares
Luis Aponte-Parés: B. Architecture, M.S. in Architecture, and Ph.D. in Urban Planning. Has taught at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn), City College of New York, Queens College (CUNY), Instituto Politécnico José Antonio Echevarría (Habana, Cuba), Universidad Interamericana (Puerto Rico), Boston Architectural College, and University of Massachusetts Boston. These academic settings have been platforms providing University/Community linkages, (Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development, City College Architectural Center (founder), Gastón Institute and Latino Studies at UMass, as platforms to engage in community development.Luis has published in Urban Planning, Community Development, Social Movements, and Ethnic Studies exploring the intersection(s) of class, ethnicity, race, national identity and cities in the USA. Current research agenda explores travel writing and tourism in the “production” of colonializing discourses, i.e., Puerto Rico as a Caribbean Tropical Island: tropes obscuring the imperial footprint of the USA.
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institutions. They also aim to be coproducers of a queer imaginary and
appropriate places of queer culture, thus Latinizing queer culture. They also
claim a role in the coproduction of a Latino imaginary
Thesis Chapters by Luis Aponte Pares
Rico by addressing how territorial systems organized around large commercial estates like Haciendas, impacted the production of space, including urban growth, urbanization, and settlement system.
We argue that Puerto Rico's development path, urban growth, and urbanization differed from other Caribbean islands. Town founding, for example, was completed before the island was engaged into commercial production for the world market, and slavery was abolished, thus, accomplished by free peasants and farmers which had immigrated to the Island during the second half of the XVIII century. We also argue that although the assertion that urban growth and urbanization is limited under Plantation/Hacienda systems appears generally true, when population is specified by periods and regions, a more complex picture emerged, and evidence examined here suggests that urbanization and ruralization occurred concurrently in XIX century Puerto Rico.
Also examined is the presumed direct association, made in the literature,
between commodities, (sugar, coffee, etc.), and commodity zones. We argue that although commodity zones emerged in Puerto Rico in the XIX century, commodity association with geographic regions resulted from a different rationale or logic in the production of space rather than the nature o f the commodity. The underlying force for spatial differentiation, was the degree of interaction between market and non-market production regions.
We provide initial answers to the origins of urban growth and urbanization by placing the production of space within a larger process of the Island’s development history, which we propose to have occurred in four distinct stages, Colonization (1509-1530), Homesteading (1530-1830), Commercial (1830-1940), and Industrial (1940 to the present). Each stage represented the intersection of economic, social, and cultural spheres within Puerto Rican society with external stimulants that resulted in
distinct organization of territorial systems, including centers for production, physical and functional infrastructure, the nucleation process, settlement systems, urban growth, and urbanization.
institutions. They also aim to be coproducers of a queer imaginary and
appropriate places of queer culture, thus Latinizing queer culture. They also
claim a role in the coproduction of a Latino imaginary
Rico by addressing how territorial systems organized around large commercial estates like Haciendas, impacted the production of space, including urban growth, urbanization, and settlement system.
We argue that Puerto Rico's development path, urban growth, and urbanization differed from other Caribbean islands. Town founding, for example, was completed before the island was engaged into commercial production for the world market, and slavery was abolished, thus, accomplished by free peasants and farmers which had immigrated to the Island during the second half of the XVIII century. We also argue that although the assertion that urban growth and urbanization is limited under Plantation/Hacienda systems appears generally true, when population is specified by periods and regions, a more complex picture emerged, and evidence examined here suggests that urbanization and ruralization occurred concurrently in XIX century Puerto Rico.
Also examined is the presumed direct association, made in the literature,
between commodities, (sugar, coffee, etc.), and commodity zones. We argue that although commodity zones emerged in Puerto Rico in the XIX century, commodity association with geographic regions resulted from a different rationale or logic in the production of space rather than the nature o f the commodity. The underlying force for spatial differentiation, was the degree of interaction between market and non-market production regions.
We provide initial answers to the origins of urban growth and urbanization by placing the production of space within a larger process of the Island’s development history, which we propose to have occurred in four distinct stages, Colonization (1509-1530), Homesteading (1530-1830), Commercial (1830-1940), and Industrial (1940 to the present). Each stage represented the intersection of economic, social, and cultural spheres within Puerto Rican society with external stimulants that resulted in
distinct organization of territorial systems, including centers for production, physical and functional infrastructure, the nucleation process, settlement systems, urban growth, and urbanization.