Amanda Holmes is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and film at McGill University, Canada. She is author of City Fictions: Language, Body and Spanish American Urban Space (2007) and co-editor of Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America (2010).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Pizza birra faso: Buildings of Hierarchy and Exclusion.- 3. Machinations of Urban Development and The Construction Industry an Mundo grúa.- 4. Properties of Glass in Nueve reinas.- 5. The Hotel Termas in La niña santa: Unstable Frames and Open Boundaries.- 6. Paper Architecture and Totalitarian Propaganda in La antena.- 7. The Architectural Promenade and the Cinematic Window in El hombre de al lado.- 8. Conclusion.

Amanda Holmes is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and film at McGill University, Canada. She is author of City Fictions: Language, Body and Spanish American Urban Space (2007) and co-editor of Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America (2010).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Pizza birra faso: Buildings of Hierarchy and Exclusion.- 3. Machinations of Urban Development and The Construction Industry an Mundo grúa.- 4. Properties of Glass in Nueve reinas.- 5. The Hotel Termas in La niña santa: Unstable Frames and Open Boundaries.- 6. Paper Architecture and Totalitarian Propaganda in La antena.- 7. The Architectural Promenade and the Cinematic Window in El hombre de al lado.- 8. Conclusion.

Amanda Holmes is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and film at McGill University, Canada. She is author of City Fictions: Language, Body and Spanish American Urban Space (2007) and co-editor of Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America (2010).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Pizza birra faso: Buildings of Hierarchy and Exclusion.- 3. Machinations of Urban Development and The Construction Industry an Mundo grúa.- 4. Properties of Glass in Nueve reinas.- 5. The Hotel Termas in La niña santa: Unstable Frames and Open Boundaries.- 6. Paper Architecture and Totalitarian Propaganda in La antena.- 7. The Architectural Promenade and the Cinematic Window in El hombre de al lado.- 8. Conclusion.