Environmental Microanalysis of a City in New Spain: Puebla de los Angeles, 1777-1835

By applying a model of spatial microanalysis, this article attempts to demonstrate a viable way of studying the urban and environ­mental functioning of a city in New Spain. The author suggests an inventory of the natural, demographic, and urban elements that interacted  in the city’s conformation, i...

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Autor: Loreto López, Rosalva
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Historia Mexicana
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/1739
Acceso en línea:https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/1739
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Puebla
New Spain
ecology
urbanization
18th Century
19th Century
Nueva España
ecología
urbanización
siglo XVIII
siglo XIX
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Sumario:By applying a model of spatial microanalysis, this article attempts to demonstrate a viable way of studying the urban and environ­mental functioning of a city in New Spain. The author suggests an inventory of the natural, demographic, and urban elements that interacted  in the city’s conformation, in order to offer a new way of territorial reading, based on ecological similarities and on the racial, social, and economic mechanisms for the assignation and appropriation of space and natural resources. The results obtai­ned through this set of interrelations allow us to understand the coexistence of different patterns of intraurban cohesion and their different degrees of biological vulnerability.