LA CIUDAD ORDENADA. ESTUDIO SOBRE "EL ORDEN QUE SE HA DE TENER EN DESCUBRIR Y POBLAR" O SOBRE EL TRAZADO REGULAR DE LA CIUDAD HISPANOAMERICANA. UNA HISTORIA DEL POBLAMIENTO DE LA AMÉRICA COLONIAL A TRAVÉS DE LA FUNDACIÓN ORDENADA DE CIUDADES

Caracas: Criteria Editorial, 2006. b/w and color plates, maps, appen., bibl., color pict. d.j. Extensive study regarding the norms from the "Leyes de los Reynos de Indias" (1688) along other colonial regulations in the design and formation of American cities, a legislation imposed by Spain for the discovery and foundation of the towns in their American territories. The author studies from a judicial perspective the history and social and cultural aspects of the peopling of colonial America through the orderly urban planning of the novohispanic cities. Includes 4 essays by noted historians: La forma del orden urbano by Graziano Gasparini; El derecho y la ciudad by Federico Vegas; Nuestro modelo urbano by Carlos Gómez de Llerena and Caracas, una isla que pierde su historia by Anthony Brewer-Carías. AN ESSENTIAL REFERENCE FOR CITY PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE STUDIES.