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Shaping terrain : city building in Latin America / edited by René Davids.
Fine Arts Library HT169.L3 S53 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Latin America.
- City planning.
- Cities and towns--Latin America--Growth.
- Cities and towns.
- Cities and towns--Latin America--History.
- History.
- Growth.
- Latin America--Economic conditions.
- Latin America.
- Economic conditions.
- Latin America--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Buildings, terrain, and form
- Mythical terrain and the building of Mexico's UNAM / René Davids
- Universidad de Panamá: 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
- São 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813062679
- 0813062675
- OCLC:
- 918969665
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