TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davids,Ren�e
TI  - Shaping terrain: city building in Latin America 
SN  - 9780813055848
AV  - HT169.L3 S53 2016eb
U1  - 307.1/216098 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - City planning
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
KW  - History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Regional Planning
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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