Constructing Mexico city: colonial conflicts over culture, space, and authority

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. INDICE: - 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61957-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 20/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés