Cruelty and Utopia
Subtitle: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: December 31, 1899
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781568984896
Subjects: Architecture; General; Criticism; Reference; Non-Classifiable; City planning; Latin America
First sentence: From the very beginning of the discovery and conquest of America, the Spanish Crown undertook to found a network of towns and villages that would assure its claim on the recently conquered territories, symbolically, militarily, and economically.