The Gridiron Town Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. General Editor’s Preface V
3. Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Urbanization in the Americas 1
4. PART ONE Congress of Americanists Papers
5. The Selected Papers: An Overview 27
6. SECTION ONE Method and Theory
7. PREHISTORIC
8. The City and the Origin of the State in America 31
9. Cause, Effect, and Anthropological Study of Urbanism 51
10. COLONIAL
11. The Scale and Functions of Spanish American Cities Around 1600: An Essay on Methodology 63
12. An Introduction to the Study of Provisioning in the Colonial City 99
13. INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN
14. The Influence of the Historical Process on External Dependency in the Restructuring of Present-Day Regional and Urban Networks 131
15. Some Problematics of the Tertiarization Process in Latin America 153
16. SECTION TWO Comparative Studies
17. PREHISTORIC
18. The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared 175
19. Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era 185
20. A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Evolution of Cuzco and Tenochtitlan 203
21. COLONIAL
22. European Urban Forms in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Their Utilization in Latin America 215
23. Urban Preeminence and the Urban System in Colonial America 249
24. The Colonial City as a Center for the Spread of Architectural and Pictorial Schools 269
25. INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN
26. Cities and Society in Nineteenth- Century Latin America: The Illustrative Case of Brazil 283
27. Services in the Contemporary Latin American City: The Case of Chile 303
28. SECTION THREE Case Studies
29. The Internal Structure of Cities in America: Pre-Columbian Cities; The Case of Tenochtitlán 315
30. Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America 327
31. Military Influence in the Cities of the Kingdom of Chile 343
32. The Urban Center as a Focus of Migration in the Colonial Period: New Spain 383
33. Regional Economy and Urbanization: Three Examples of the Relationship Between Cities and Regions in New Spain at the End of the Eighteenth Century 399
34. Changing Urban Patterns: The Porteño Case (1880–1910) 425
35. Agricultural Development in the Process of Urbanization: Functions of Production, Population Patterns, and Urbanization 443
36. PART TWO The ICAES Papers
37. The Selected Papers: An Overview 461
38. The City-State in the Basin of Mexico: Late Pre-Hispanic Period 463
39. The Gridiron Town Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America 471
40. A Brazilian Urban System in the Nineteenth Century: Pelotas and Rio de Janeiro 491
41. Migrations and Urbanization in Brazil, 1870–1930: A Global Interpretation 505
42. Household Composition and Mating Patterns Among Lower-Class Venezuelans 525
43. The Survival of the Unfittest 537
44. The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru 569
45. The Unplanned Ecology of a Planned Industrial City: The Case of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela 587
46. Values and Migration Decision Making 619
47. Biographical Notes 633
48. Index of Names 643
49. Index of Subjects 653