Planning before Columbus came

Authors

  • José Alcina Franc

Abstract

Taking as his starting point the vast variety of Pre-Columbian cultures, the author goes on to consider the idea of settlements in terms of that multi-form society that was the continent's before the arrival of the spanish, drawing up for us as he does so a detailing schema that interrelates each of the cultures then to be found in terms of its settlement type: hamlets, townships, estates or cities. Arguements as to what is a centre of ceremonies, what a city as such or the sense we could give to a pre-industrial city as against another thus developed are examined in this paper which, in so doing, re-appraises the terms and concepts proper to the settlement phenomenum so that these might be better applied when describing population groupings that in Mesoamerica at times could total some 300,000 to 400,000 inhabitants before the coming of the europeans.

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Published

1990-09-27

How to Cite

Alcina Franc, J. (1990). Planning before Columbus came. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (85), 93–103. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/83694

Issue

Ciudad y Territorio. Ciencia Urbana. Núm. 85 (1990)

Section

Articulos

License

Copyright (c) 1990 José Alcina Franc

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