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Shaping Terrain : City Building in Latin America / edited by Rene Davids.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Latin America--History.
- Cities and towns.
- Cities and towns--Latin America--Growth.
- City planning--Latin America.
- City planning.
- Latin America--Social conditions.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 / 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5584-9
- OCLC:
- 952338720
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