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
Otros Autores: Davids, Rene, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Economic history.
City planning.
Cities and towns > Growth.
Cities and towns.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
Villes > Amerique latine > Histoire.
Villes > Amerique latine > Croissance.
Cities and towns > Latin America > History.
Cities and towns > Latin America > Growth.
City planning > Latin America.
Latin America.
Amerique latine > Conditions sociales.
Amerique latine > Conditions economiques.
Latin America > Social conditions.
Latin America > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Buildings, terrain, and form
  • Mythical terrain and the building of Mexico's UNAM / Rene Davids
  • Universidad de Panama: designing on the outside edge of the periphery / Rene Davids
  • Topography and ideology: the Museum of Modern Art and the Helicoide de la Roca de Tarpeya / Iván Gonzáles, Jose Rosas, and Rene Davids
  • Säo Paulo's topography and the utopian democracy / Angelo Bucci and Rene Davids
  • Le Corbusier, Rio de Janeiro, topography, and housing: a cross-cultural exchange / Rene 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 / Rene Davids with Julián Alejandro Osorio
  • Topography, hydrology, and the irrigated landscapes of Mendoza, Argentina / Jorge Ricardo Ponte, translated and adapted by Rene Davids
  • Hills, infrastructure, and social order
  • Santiago de Chile and the changing meaning of its hills / Rodrigo Perez de Arce, translated and adapted by Rene Davids
  • Valparaíso: a future in the balance / Rene Davids
  • Topography and civic order in latin america / Rene Davids
  • Demolishing urban hills: establishing new identities / Rene Davids.

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