Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginning to the Present

I-IV -- General Editor s Preface -- Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Urbanization in the Americas -- PART ONE Congress of Americanists Papers -- The Selected Papers: An Overview -- SECTION ONE Method and Theory -- PREHISTORIC -- The City and the Origin of the State in America -- Cause, Effect, and Anthropological Study of Urbanism -- COLONIAL -- The Scale and Functions of Spanish American Cities Around 1600: An Essay on Methodology -- An Introduction to the Study of Provisioning in the Colonial City -- INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN -- The Influence of the Historical Process on External Dependency in the Restructuring of Present-Day Regional and Urban Networks -- Some Problematics of the Tertiarization Process in Latin America -- SECTION TWO Comparative Studies -- PREHISTORIC -- The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared -- Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era -- A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Evolution of Cuzco and Tenochtitlan -- COLONIAL -- European Urban Forms in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Their Utilization in Latin America -- Urban Preeminence and the Urban System in Colonial America -- The Colonial City as a Center for the Spread of Architectural and Pictorial Schools -- INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN -- Cities and Society in Nineteenth- Century Latin America: The Illustrative Case of Brazil -- Services in the Contemporary Latin American City: The Case of Chile -- SECTION THREE Case Studies -- The Internal Structure of Cities in America: Pre-Columbian Cities; The Case of Tenochtitlán -- Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America -- Military Influence in the Cities of the Kingdom of Chile -- The Urban Center as a Focus of Migration in the Colonial Period: New Spain -- Regional Economy and Urbanization: Three Examples of the Relationship Between Cities and Regions in New Spain at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Changing Urban Patterns: The Porteño Case (1880 1910) -- Agricultural Development in the Process of Urbanization: Functions of Production, Population Patterns, and Urbanization -- PART TWO The ICAES Papers -- The Selected Papers: An Overview -- The City-State in the Basin of Mexico: Late Pre-Hispanic Period -- The Gridiron Town Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America -- A Brazilian Urban System in the Nineteenth Century: Pelotas and Rio de Janeiro -- Migrations and Urbanization in Brazil, 1870 1930: A Global Interpretation -- Household Composition and Mating Patterns Among Lower-Class Venezuelans -- The Survival of the Unfittest -- The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru -- The Unplanned Ecology of a Planned Industrial City: The Case of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela -- Values and Migration Decision Making -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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I-IV -- General Editor Preface -- Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Urbanization in the Americas -- PART ONE Congress of Americanists Papers -- The Selected Papers: An Overview -- SECTION ONE Method and Theory -- PREHISTORIC -- The City and the Origin of the State in America -- Cause, Effect, and Anthropological Study of Urbanism -- COLONIAL -- The Scale and Functions of Spanish American Cities Around 1600: An Essay on Methodology -- An Introduction to the Study of Provisioning in the Colonial City -- INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN -- The Influence of the Historical Process on External Dependency in the Restructuring of Present-Day Regional and Urban Networks -- Some Problematics of the Tertiarization Process in Latin America -- SECTION TWO Comparative Studies -- PREHISTORIC -- The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared -- Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era -- A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Evolution of Cuzco and Tenochtitlan -- COLONIAL -- European Urban Forms in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Their Utilization in Latin America -- Urban Preeminence and the Urban System in Colonial America -- The Colonial City as a Center for the Spread of Architectural and Pictorial Schools -- INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN -- Cities and Society in Nineteenth- Century Latin America: The Illustrative Case of Brazil -- Services in the Contemporary Latin American City: The Case of Chile -- SECTION THREE Case Studies -- The Internal Structure of Cities in America: Pre-Columbian Cities; The Case of Tenochtitl -- Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America -- Military Influence in the Cities of the Kingdom of Chile -- The Urban Center as a Focus of Migration in the Colonial Period: New Spain -- Regional Economy and Urbanization: Three Examples of the Relationship Between Cities and Regions in New Spain at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Changing Urban Patterns: The Porte Case (188010) -- Agricultural Development in the Process of Urbanization: Functions of Production, Population Patterns, and Urbanization -- PART TWO The ICAES Papers -- The Selected Papers: An Overview -- The City-State in the Basin of Mexico: Late Pre-Hispanic Period -- The Gridiron Town Plan and the Caste System in Colonial Central America -- A Brazilian Urban System in the Nineteenth Century: Pelotas and Rio de Janeiro -- Migrations and Urbanization in Brazil, 187030: A Global Interpretation -- Household Composition and Mating Patterns Among Lower-Class Venezuelans -- The Survival of the Unfittest -- The Female Domestic Servant and Social Change: Lima, Peru -- The Unplanned Ecology of a Planned Industrial City: The Case of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela -- Values and Migration Decision Making -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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Commentaries on Aristotle's writings have been produced since the 2nd century AD. This edition contains Greek commentaries on his work from the 3rd to the 8th centuries AD by, among others, Alexander of Aphrodiensias, Themistios, Joh. Philoponus, Simplicius in Greek.

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I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Urbanization in the Americas -- PART ONE Congress of Americanists Papers -- The Selected Papers: An Overview -- SECTION ONE Method and Theory -- PREHISTORIC -- The City and the Origin of the State in America -- Cause, Effect, and Anthropological Study of Urbanism -- COLONIAL -- The Scale and Functions of Spanish American Cities Around 1600: An Essay on Methodology -- An Introduction to the Study of Provisioning in the Colonial City -- INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN -- The Influence of the Historical Process on External Dependency in the Restructuring of Present-Day Regional and Urban Networks -- Some Problematics of the Tertiarization Process in Latin America -- SECTION TWO Comparative Studies -- PREHISTORIC -- The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared -- Ecological Factors Affecting the Urban Transformation in the Last Centuries of the Pre-Columbian Era -- A Comparison of Some Aspects of the Evolution of Cuzco and Tenochtitlan -- COLONIAL -- European Urban Forms in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Their Utilization in Latin America -- Urban Preeminence and the Urban System in Colonial America -- The Colonial City as a Center for the Spread of Architectural and Pictorial Schools -- INDEPENDENCE AND MODERN -- Cities and Society in Nineteenth- Century Latin America: The Illustrative Case of Brazil -- Services in the Contemporary Latin American City: The Case of Chile -- SECTION THREE Case Studies -- The Internal Structure of Cities in America: Pre-Columbian Cities; The Case of Tenochtitlán -- Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America -- Military Influence in the Cities of the Kingdom of Chile -- The Urban Center as a Focus of Migration in the Colonial Period: New Spain -- Regional Economy and Urbanization: Three Examples of the Relationship Between Cities and Regions in New Spain at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Changing Urban Patterns: The Porteño Case (188…