Ancient origins of the Mexican plaza : from primordial sea to public space /

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The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city - the plac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagner, Logan
Otros Autores: Box, Hal, Morehead, Susan Kline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013]
Edición:1st [ed.].
Colección:Roger Fullington series in architecture.
Temas:
Plazas > Mexico > History.
Public spaces > Mexico > History.
Architecture and society > Mexico > History.
Places > Mexique > Histoire.
Architecture et société > Mexique > Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture and society.
Plazas.
Public spaces.
Mexico.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Primordial Sea : Forming Open Space in Mesoamerica. Mesoamerican Concept of Space ; Mountains and Altepetls ; Caves, Quatrefoils, and Sunken Courts ; Types of Open Space in Mesoamerica ; Triad Centering ; U-shaped Courts ; Quadrangles ; Quincunx : Symbol of the Cosmos ; Ballcourts ; The Sunken Court of Teopantecuanitlán ; The Dallas Plaque : A Cosmogram
  • Forming Spanish Towns in Mesoamerican Culture. People and Ideas ; The Invasion ; The Europeans Making Contact ; European Plazas in the Early Sixteenth Century ; Origins of the Plaza ; Building New World Towns ; Types of Towns ; First Acts and Encounters ; Laws of the Indies ; Conversion ; Quincunx Patios ; Relaciones Geográficas
  • Sixteenth-Century Communal Open Spaces (Five Hundred Years Later). Caves and Crevices ; Amecameca, State of México ; Zoquizoquipan, Hidalgo ; Valladolid, Yucatán ; Quincunxial Arrangements ; Atlatlahuacan, Morelos ; Huejotzingo, Puebla ; Huaquechula, Puebla ; Zacualpan de Amilpas, Morelos ; Terraced Mountains ; Molango, Hidalgo ; Achiutla, Oaxaca ; Yanhuitlán, Oaxaca ; Sunken Courts ; Tepoztlán, Morelos ; Tochimilco, Puebla ; Calpan, Puebla ; Ballcourts and Bullrings ; Villa Díaz Ordaz, Oaxaca ; Tlanalapa, Hidalgo ; Tepeapulco, Hidalgo ; Open Space Ensembles ; Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca ; Tlacolula, Oaxaca ; Otumba de Gómez Farías, State of México ; Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca ; Tepeaca, Puebla ; Etla, Oaxaca ; Bishop Quiroga's Utopias in Michoacán ; Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán ; Pátzcuaro, Michoacán ; Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacán ; Erongarícuaro, Michoacán ; Angahuan, Michoacán ; Visible Overlays and Deliberate Alignments ; Mitla, Oaxaca ; Hacienda Xaaga, Oaxaca ; Teposcolula, Oaxaca ; Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca ; Epazoyucan, Hidalgo ; The Yucatán Experience ; Chapels, Yucatán ; Tibolón, Yucatán ; Izamal, Yucatán
  • Origins and Evolution
  • Epilogue : Plazas in the twenty-first century.

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