Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginning to the Present
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Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginning to the Present

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Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginning to the Present

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2011
ISBN
9783110808018
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. General Editor’s Preface
  2. Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Urbanization in the Americas
  3. PART ONE: CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS PAPERS
  4. The Selected Papers: An Overview
  5. SECTION ONE: METHOD AND THEORY
  6. Prehistoric
  7. The City and the Origin of the State in America
  8. Cause, Effect, and the Anthropological Study of Urbanism
  9. Colonial
  10. The Scale and Functions of Spanish American Cities Around 1600: An Essay on Methodology
  11. An Introduction to the Study of Provisioning in the Colonial City
  12. Independence and Modem
  13. The Influence of the Historical Process on External Dependency in the Restructuring of Present-Day Regional and Urban Networks
  14. Some Problematics of the Tertiarization Process in Latin America
  15. SECTION TWO: COMPARATIVE STUDIES
  16. Prehistoric
  17. The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared
  18. Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era
  19. A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Evolution of Cuzco and TenochtitlĂĄn
  20. Colonial
  21. European Urban Forms in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Their Utilization in Latin America
  22. Urban Preeminence and the Urban System in Colonial America
  23. The Colonial City as a Center for the Spread of Architectural and Pictorial Schools
  24. Independence and Modern
  25. Cities and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: The Illustrative Case of Brazil
  26. Services in the Contemporary Latin American City: The Case of Chile
  27. SECTION THREE: CASE STUDIES
  28. The Internal Structure of Cities in America: Pre-Columbian Cities; The Case of TenochtitlĂĄn
  29. Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America
  30. Military Influence in the Cities of the Kingdom of Chile
  31. The Urban Center as a Focus of Migration in the Colonial Period: New Spain
  32. Regional Economy and Urbanization: Three Examples of the Relationship Between Cities and Regions in New Spain at the End of the Eighteenth Century
  33. Changing Urban Patterns: The Porteño Case (1880–1910)
  34. Agricultural Development in the Process of Urbanization: Functions of Production, Population Patterns, and Urbanization
  35. PART TWO: THE ICAES PAPERS
  36. The Selected Papers: An Overview
  37. The City-State in the Basin of Mexico: Late Pre-Hispanic Period
  38. The Gridiron Town Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America
  39. A Brazilian Urban System in the Nineteenth Century: Pelotas and Rio de Janeiro
  40. Migrations and Urbanization in Brazil 1870–1930: A Global Interpretation
  41. Household Composition and Mating Patterns Among Lower-Class Venezuelans
  42. The Survival of the Unfittest
  43. The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru
  44. The Unplanned Ecology of a Planned Industrial City: The Case of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
  45. Values and Migration Decision Making
  46. Biographical Notes
  47. Index of Names
  48. Index of Subjects