Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza : : From Primordial Sea to Public Space / / Hal Box, Logan Wagner, Susan Kline Morehead.
The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Authors’ Note
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One The Primordial Sea Forming Open Space in Mesoamerica
- Chapter Two Forming Spanish Towns in Mesoamerican Culture
- Chapter Three Sixteenth-Century Communal Open Spaces (Five Hundred Years Later)
- Chapter Four Origins and Evolution
- Epilogue Plazas in the Twenty-First Century
- Appendix Measured Drawings: Plans of Towns
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index