Constructing Mexico City

Colonial Conflicts Over Culture, Space, and Authority
2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-61957-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glasco, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Splendor and Misery in the Viceregal Capital: The Physical and Material Environment of Mexico City Restoring Order Out of Chaos: Garbage Collection in Theory and Practice Mastery Over the Streets: Drainage, Street Paving, and Renovation of Urban Space A Basic Necessity: Public Access to and Uses of Potable Water

Über Autor(innen)

SHARON BAILEY GLASCO is Assistant Professor of History and History Department Chair at Linfield College, USA.