The colonization of the atlantic: the Canary Island cities

Authors

  • Juan Ramírez Guedes

Abstract

The colonization of the atlantic island corresponds to the first phase os spanish and portuguese overseas expansion; thus, in the spanish case, the canary colonial city foundation experience, represents a transitional episode in the constitutive process of basic spanish-american town planning patterns. In the canary islands cities, the foundational and transformative practice, adopts itself to morphological conformation rules, that are tied to the right-angled grid tradition, or to the proceeding urban space configuration by means of isolated architectural works, offering some ambiguous and contradictory specific features, inherant in the make-shift and frontier-like canary colonial town character, between a medieval heritage and the renaissance projection.

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Published

1988-09-29

How to Cite

Ramírez Guedes, J. (1988). The colonization of the atlantic: the Canary Island cities. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (77), 9–15. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/82717