Architecture and urbanism in viceregal Mexico : Puebla de Los Ángeles, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / Juan Luis Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Juan Luis, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge research in architectural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza--History.

Architecture and society.

City planning--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza--History.

City planning.

History.

Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico)--History.

Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico).

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Mexico.

Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Puebla de Los Ángeles, 16th-18th centuries

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

The creation of a town : Puebla de los Ángeles as an urban and theological experiment, ca. 1530s-1580s

The grid and the hill : Puebla's urban form, ca. 1530s-1610s

Urban palaces and architectural treatises : a New World Renaissance in Puebla, ca. 1570s-1630s

The bishop and his cathedral : Juan de Palafox's ideal Christian republic, ca. 1600s-1650s

Decline and splendor : Puebla de los Ángeles' Baroque era, ca. 1660s-1770s.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--McGill University, 2017, under the title: Civitas angelorum : the symbolic urbanism of Puebla de los Ángeles in the early modern era.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781003080732

1003080731

Publisher Number:

40030692271

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Restricted for use by site license.