Constructing Mexico City Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority [Hardcover]

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.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

'This is a very interesting book that shows solid empirical evidence (mainly from archival documents) and analysis...The book is a valuable resource for historians, planners and those interested in the development of Mexico City and the analysis of urban social inequalities through the access to urban services and the use and structure of the city.' -International Planning Studies

SHARON BAILEY GLASCO is Assistant Professor of History and History Department Chair at Linfield College, USA.