ABSTRACT
Demographic transition and modernization were imbued with an 'economic nationalism' shared by Latin America's socialism and liberalism alike. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) rationale ran parallel to and in concert with the emergence of populism in Latin America's major economies, a populism whose success 'rested to a great extent on the capacity of industrialization to create employment in the cities'. Perez Jimenez's dictatorship epitomized the linkages between economic developmentalism, nationalism and infrastructure amelioration that were manifest in Latin America's larger countries. Functional modernism in other Latin American capitals was enriched during the 1940s, especially by the visits of Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) luminaries as advisors to new planning institutions, some of which passed from the local to the national administration. Architectural modernism showcased the rapid modernization pursued by economic developmentalism, whose nationalist ingredients coloured vernacular and genuine modernismos in some of Latin America's developing countries.
