TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davids,René
TI  - Shaping terrain: city building in Latin America 
SN  - 9780813055848
AV  - HT169 .S537 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - City planning
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Buildings, terrain, and form --; Mythical terrain and the building of Mexico's UNAM; René Davids --; Universidad de Panama: designing on the outside edge of the periphery; René Davids --; Topography and ideology: the Museum of Modern Art and the Helicoide de la Roca de Tarpeya; Iván Gonzáles, José Rosas, and René Davids --; Säo Paulo's topography and the utopian democracy; Angelo Bucci and René Davids --; Le Corbusier, Rio de Janeiro, topography, and housing: a cross-cultural exchange; René 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 Bogotá; René Davids with Julián Alejandro Osorio --; Topography, hydrology, and the irrigated landscapes of Mendoza, Argentina; Jorge Ricardo Ponte, translated and adapted by René Davids --; Hills, infrastructure, and social order --; Santiago de Chile and the changing meaning of its hills; Rodrigo Perez de Arce, translated and adapted by René Davids --; Valparaíso: a future in the balance; René Davids --; Topography and civic order in latin america; René Davids --; Demolishing urban hills: establishing new identities; René Davids; 2; b
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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