Architecture and urbanism in viceregal Mexico : Puebla de Los Ángeles 16th 18th centuries The creation of a town : Puebla de los Ángeles as an urban and theological experiment ca. 1530s 1580s The grid and the hill : Pueblas urban form ca. 1530s 1610s Urban palaces and architectural treatises : a New World Renaissance in Puebla ca. 1570s 1630s The bishop and his cathedral : Juan de Palafoxs ideal Christian republic ca. 1600s 1650s Decline and splendor : Puebla de los Ángeles Baroque era ca. 1660s 1770s.