Shaping terrain : city building in Latin America /

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This collection considers topography, ecology, and landscape alongside social, political, economic, and cultural meanings that have accompanied the built environment in Latin America dating to before Spanish contact.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davids, René, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Temas:
City planning > Latin America.
Cities and towns > Latin America > Growth.
Cities and towns > Latin America > History.
Villes > Amérique latine > Croissance.
Villes > Amérique latine > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns > Growth.
City planning.
Economic history.
Social conditions.
Latin America > Economic conditions.
Latin America > Social conditions.
Amérique latine > Conditions économiques.
Amérique latine > Conditions sociales.
Latin America.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Buildings, terrain, and form
  • Mythical terrain and the building of Mexico's UNAM / René Davids
  • Universidad de Panama: designing on the outside edge of the periphery / René Davids
  • Topography and ideology: the Museum of Modern Art and the Helicoide de la Roca de Tarpeya / Iván Gonzáles, José Rosas, and René Davids
  • Säo Paulo's topography and the utopian democracy / Angelo Bucci and René Davids
  • Le Corbusier, Rio de Janeiro, topography, and housing: a cross-cultural exchange / René Davids
  • Cities and water
  • Mexico City as reinvented geography, its looming environmental crisis, and recent proposals for regenerative landscapes / Edward R. Burian
  • Mountains, wetlands, and public space in Bogotá / René Davids with Julián Alejandro Osorio
  • Topography, hydrology, and the irrigated landscapes of Mendoza, Argentina / Jorge Ricardo Ponte, translated and adapted by René Davids
  • Hills, infrastructure, and social order
  • Santiago de Chile and the changing meaning of its hills / Rodrigo Perez de Arce, translated and adapted by René Davids
  • Valparaíso: a future in the balance / René Davids
  • Topography and civic order in latin america / René Davids
  • Demolishing urban hills: establishing new identities / René Davids.

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