Shaping terrain :  city building in Latin America / 
edited by Ren�e Davids. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Buildings, terrain, and form -- Mythical terrain and the building of Mexico's UNAM / Ren�e Davids -- Universidad de Panama: designing on the outside edge of the periphery / Ren�e Davids -- Topography and ideology: the Museum of Modern Art and the Helicoide de la Roca de Tarpeya / Iv�an Gonz�ales, Jos�e Rosas, and Ren�e Davids -- S�ao Paulo's topography and the utopian democracy / Angelo Bucci and Ren�e Davids -- Le Corbusier, Rio de Janeiro, topography, and housing: a cross-cultural exchange / Ren�e Davids -- Cities and water -- Mexico City as reinvented geography, its looming environmental crisis, and recent proposals for regenerative landscapes / Edward R. Burian -- Mountains, wetlands, and public space in Bogot�a / Ren�e Davids with Juli�an Alejandro Osorio -- Topography, hydrology, and the irrigated landscapes of Mendoza, Argentina / Jorge Ricardo Ponte, translated and adapted by Ren�e Davids -- Hills, infrastructure, and social order -- Santiago de Chile and the changing meaning of its hills / Rodrigo Perez de Arce, translated and adapted by Ren�e Davids -- Valpara�iso: a future in the balance / Ren�e Davids -- Topography and civic order in latin america / Ren�e Davids -- Demolishing urban hills: establishing new identities / Ren�e Davids. 
<br/><br/> This collection considers topography, ecology, and landscape alongside social, political, economic, and cultural meanings that have accompanied the built environment in Latin America dating to before Spanish contact. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813055848 0813055849 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctvx0czfx  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>City planning--Latin America.<br/>Cities and towns--Growth.--Latin America<br/>Cities and towns--History.--Latin America<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Regional Planning.<br/>Cities and towns.<br/>Cities and towns--Growth.<br/>City planning.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Social conditions.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Latin America--Economic conditions.<br/>Latin America--Social conditions.<br/>Latin America.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT169.L3  / S53 2016eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.1/216098