Constructing Mexico City
DOWNLOAD
Download Constructing Mexico City PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Constructing Mexico City book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Mexico City S Z Calo
DOWNLOAD
Author : Benjamin A. Bross
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-30
Mexico City S Z Calo written by Benjamin A. Bross and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Architecture categories.
This book presents a case study of one of Latin America’s most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment. It poses questions about how the identity of a place emerges, how it evolves and, why does it change? Mexico City’s Zócalo: A History of a Constructed Spatial Identity utilizes the history of a specific place, the Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución), to explain the emergence and evolution of Mexican identities over time. Starting from the pre-Hispanic period to present day, the work illustrates how the Zócalo reveals spatial manifestations as part of the larger socio-cultural zeitgeist. By focusing on the history of changes in spatial production – what Henri Lefebvre calls society’s "secretions" – Bross traces how cultural, social, economic, and political forces shaped the Zócalo’s spatial identity and, in turn, how the Zócalo shaped and fostered new identities in return. It will be a fascinating read for architectural and urban historians investigating Latin America.
Constructing Mexico City
DOWNLOAD
Author : S. Glasco
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-19
Constructing Mexico City written by S. Glasco and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-19 with Social Science categories.
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.
Dwelling Urbanism
DOWNLOAD
Author : Christian von Wissel
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2019-09-23
Dwelling Urbanism written by Christian von Wissel and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-23 with Architecture categories.
City dwellers are direct agents in the making of cities; yet how do they actually constitute and sustain the urban and its forms? How do they practice the urban and through this practice shape the city-in-the-making that emerges along with them on the backs of their working bodies? Dwelling Urbanism re-thinks the urban from this perspective of corporeal making and with regard to the cityness that it bears. It delves into the thick of life in the periphery of Mexico City, uncovering the everyday actions and efforts that practitioners of space accomplish when building houses, creating jobs and putting themselves to work as infrastructure. How are consequential conjunctions, how is access to, and presence in the city actively grown? And what does such thinking the city as a verb, as citying, imply for urban planning?
Architecture In Mexico 1900 2010
DOWNLOAD
Author : Fernanda Canales
language : en
Publisher: Arquine
Release Date : 2013
Architecture In Mexico 1900 2010 written by Fernanda Canales and has been published by Arquine this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Architecture categories.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Arquitectura en Maexico 1900-2010: La Construcciaon de la Modernidad: Obras, Diseano, Arte y Pensamiento [Architecture in Mexico 19002010: The Construction of Modernity: Works, Design, Art, and Thought]," held December 2013 to June 2014 at the Museo Antiguo Palacio de Iturbide in Mexico City.
Performance In The Z Calo
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ana Martínez
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2020-10-01
Performance In The Z Calo written by Ana Martínez and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Performing Arts categories.
For more than five centuries, the Plaza Mayor (or Zócalo) in Mexico City has been the site of performances for a public spectatorship. During the period of colonial rule, performances designed to ensure loyalty to the Spanish monarchy were staged there, but over time, these displays gave way to staged demonstrations of resistance. Today, the Zócalo is a site for both official government-sponsored celebrations and performances that challenge the state. Performance in the Zócalo examines the ways that this city square has achieved symbolic significance over the centuries, and how national, ethnic, and racial identity has been performed there. A saying in Mexico City is “quien domina el centro, domina el país” (whoever dominates the center, dominates the country) as the Zócalo continues to act as the performative embodiment of Mexican society. This book highlights how particular performances build upon each other by recycling past architectures and performative practices for new purposes. Ana Martínez discusses the singular role of collective memory in creating meaning through space and landmarks, providing a new perspective and further insight into the problem of Mexico’s relationship with its own past. Rather than merely describe the commemorations, she traces the relationship between space and the invention of a Mexican imaginary. She also explores how indigenous communities, Mexico’s alienated subalterns, performed as exploited objects, exotic characters, and subjects with agency. The book’s dual purposes are to examine the Zócalo as Mexico’s central site of performance and to unmask, without homogenizing, the official discourse regarding Mexico’s natives. This book will be of interest for students and scholars in theater studies, Mexican Studies, Cultural Geography, Latinx and Latin American Studies.
Mexico City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alejandro Rosas
language : en
Publisher: Tinta Books
Release Date : 2023-10-24
Mexico City written by Alejandro Rosas and has been published by Tinta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-24 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
A playfully illustrated history of Mexico City since 1521 While the history of Mexico dates back thousands of years, the story of Mexico City, the country's capital, only dates to pre-Columbian times, with the founding of Tenochtitlan by the Mexica people in 1325. Tenochtitlan quickly became the most powerful city-state in the region, with a population of about two hundred thousand at its peak, and was known for its architectural and engineering feats. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in 1521 and began a brutal campaign of colonial conquest. The city fell to Spanish rule, and much of it was destroyed alongside rich indigenous heritage. Cortés rebuilt the city, renaming it and making it the capital of New Spain. Under Spanish rule, Mexico City became one of the wealthiest and most important cities in the Americas and was a center of trade, culture, and political power. Many of its iconic buildings were constructed during this time, including the Cathedral of Mexico City and the National Palace. During the Mexican War of Independence, the city was captured in 1810 by rebel forces under Miguel Hidalgo but soon recaptured by the Spanish. After years of fighting, Mexico finally gained independence from Spain in 1821, and Mexico City became the capital of the new republic. In the decades that followed the city underwent rapid growth and modernization, with new neighborhoods, parks, and public buildings constructed. Mexico City, a playfully illustrated history of the city since 1521, highlights the complex cultural and economic forces and conflicts that shaped this international metropolis, which today is home to more than 20 million people, as well as visitors and expats from around the world.
How To Build A Monument
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jessica Clements
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
How To Build A Monument written by Jessica Clements and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Constructing For The Future Of Mexico
DOWNLOAD
Author : Migdal Arquitectos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Constructing For The Future Of Mexico written by Migdal Arquitectos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
This volume explores the innovative work of Mexico City based Midgal Arquitectos. The work of this young firm relfects the dynamisn of contemporary Mexican life.
Writing Drawing Building
DOWNLOAD
Author : Adam Kaasa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Writing Drawing Building written by Adam Kaasa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Building The King S Highway
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bruce A. Castleman
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2005-04
Building The King S Highway written by Bruce A. Castleman and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04 with Social Science categories.
Focusing on the camino real linking Mexico City and the port of Veracruz, Castleman has written a social history of road construction laborers in late Bourbon Mexico. He has drawn on employment and census records to study a major shift in methods used by the Spanish colonial regime to mobilize the supply of unskilled labor - and concomitant changes in the identities those laborers asserted for themselves. By linking census and employment records, he uncovers a host of social indicators such as marriage preference, family structure, and differences over time in how the caste system was used to classify people according to ancestry. His work provides a valuable new perspective on people's lives as it advances our understanding of labor in late colonial Latin America.