Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginning to the Present / / ed. by Jorge E. Hardoy, Nora Scott-Kinzer, Richard P. Schaedel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA History <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ARANOVICH, CARMEN,; BALÁN, JORGE,; BLUMBERG, RAE LESSER,; BONAVÍA, DUCCIO,; BORAH, WOODROW,; BROWNING, HARLEY L.,; CALNEK, EDWARD E.,; CONDE, ROBERTO CORTÉS,; COOK, SHERBURNE F.,; FOWLER, MELVIN L.,; GARCIA, MARIA-PILAR,; GASPARINI, GRAZIANO,; GUARDA, GABRIEL,; HARDOY, JORGE E.,; KATZ, FRIEDRICH,; KINZER, NORA SCOTT,; KUBLER, GEORGE,; LEITMAN, SPENCER L.,; LOMNITZ, LARISSA,; MAMALAKIS, MARKOS,; MARKMAN, S. D.,; MAURO, FRÉDÉRIC,; MORSE, RICHARD M.,; NISNOVICH, NANCY LÓPEZ DE,; POLLAK-ELTZ, ANGELINA,; PRICE, BARBARA J.,; ROFMAN, ALEJANDRO,; SCHAEDEL, RICHARD P.,; SCOBIE, JAMES R.,; SMITH, MARGO L.,; SOLANO, FRANCISCO DE,; STEPICK, ALEX,; TOSCANO, ALEJANDRA MORENO,
• HerausgeberIn: Hardoy, Jorge E.,; Schaedel, Richard P.,; Scott-Kinzer, Nora,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (676 p.) :; 13 plates. 2 maps.
• Other title: I-IV --; General Editor’s Preface --; Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Urbanization in the Americas --; PART ONE Congress of Americanists Papers --; The Selected Papers: An Overview --; SECTION ONE Method and Theory --; PREHISTORIC --; The City and the Origin of the State in America --; Cause, Effect, and Anthropological Study of Urbanism --; COLONIAL --; The Scale and Functions of Spanish American Cities Around 1600: An Essay on Methodology --; An Introduction to the Study of Provisioning in the Colonial City --; INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN --; The Influence of the Historical Process on External Dependency in the Restructuring of Present-Day Regional and Urban Networks --; Some Problematics of the Tertiarization Process in Latin America --; SECTION TWO Comparative Studies --; The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared --; Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era --; A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Evolution of Cuzco and Tenochtitlan --; European Urban Forms in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Their Utilization in Latin America --; Urban Preeminence and the Urban System in Colonial America --; The Colonial City as a Center for the Spread of Architectural and Pictorial Schools --; Cities and Society in Nineteenth- Century Latin America: The Illustrative Case of Brazil --; Services in the Contemporary Latin American City: The Case of Chile --; SECTION THREE Case Studies --; The Internal Structure of Cities in America: Pre-Columbian Cities; The Case of Tenochtitlán --; Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America --; Military Influence in the Cities of the Kingdom of Chile --; The Urban Center as a Focus of Migration in the Colonial Period: New Spain --; Regional Economy and Urbanization: Three Examples of the Relationship Between Cities and Regions in New Spain at the End of the Eighteenth Century --; Changing Urban Patterns: The Porteño Case (1880–1910) --; Agricultural Development in the Process of Urbanization: Functions of Production, Population Patterns, and Urbanization --; PART TWO The ICAES Papers --; The City-State in the Basin of Mexico: Late Pre-Hispanic Period --; The Gridiron Town Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America --; A Brazilian Urban System in the Nineteenth Century: Pelotas and Rio de Janeiro --; Migrations and Urbanization in Brazil, 1870–1930: A Global Interpretation --; Household Composition and Mating Patterns Among Lower-Class Venezuelans --; The Survival of the Unfittest --; The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru --; The Unplanned Ecology of a Planned Industrial City: The Case of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela --; Values and Migration Decision Making --; Biographical Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110808018; 9783110635829
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110808018
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jorge E. Hardoy, Nora Scott-Kinzer, Richard P. Schaedel.