Arte/Cidade : a Cidade e suas Historias

São Paulo, Brazil: Arte / Cidade Grupo de Intervencao Urbana, 1998. Softcover. VG. Black and white illustrated wraps, red spine, approx. 77 pp. B/W illustrations throughout, many fold-out pages. In Portuguese and English. Arte / Cidade is a project of urban interventions working in Sao Paulo, Brazil, since 1994. It seeks interventions that relate to the vast territory of megacities and the global reconfigurations of economy, power and art. In essays and many photos their catalogue "The City and Its Stories" - describes a project done around 1997 along a railway track in the western region: an old railway station and two large and abandoned industrial plants, linked by a train specially adapted for the project. (from www.artecidade.org.br/). (Inventory #: 130352)