Shaping terrain : city building in Latin America / edited by René Davids.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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