Spanish City Planning in North America

by Dora P. Crouch

There are few purely Renaissance cities in Europe, for experiments with new urban ideas were generally constrained by the existence of older city fabrics. But the New World offered a clean slate, and the Spanish conquests and settlements led to the building of almost 350 new cities in accordance with a set of edicts, The Laws of the Indies, that embodied Renaissance concepts of urban form: regular street patterns, harmonious groupings of major institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262030810
• ISBN13: 9780262030816
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.