Constructing Mexico City

1. Front Matter

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2. Shaping the Colonial City

   • Sharon Bailey Glasco

   Pages 1-16

3. Splendor and Misery in the Viceregal Capital: The Physical, Material, and Political Environment of Bourbon Mexico City

   • Sharon Bailey Glasco

   Pages 17-47

4. In Sickness and Health: Disease, Healing, and the Urban Population

   • Sharon Bailey Glasco

   Pages 49-75

5. A Basic Necessity: Water and the Urban Environment

   • Sharon Bailey Glasco

   Pages 77-96

6. Restoring Order Out of Chaos: Garbage Collection in Theory and Practice

   • Sharon Bailey Glasco

   Pages 97-126

7. Mastery over the Streets: Drainage, Street Paving, and Renovation of Urban Space

   • Sharon Bailey Glasco

   Pages 127-154

8. Concluding Thoughts

   • Sharon Bailey Glasco

   Pages 155-161

9. Back Matter

   Pages 163-203

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Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments.

• conflict
• conflicts
• culture
• environment
• water
• area studies

'This is a very interesting book that shows solid empirical evidence (mainly from archival documents) and analysis...The book is a valuable resource for historians, planners and those interested in the development of Mexico City and the analysis of urban social inequalities through the access to urban services and the use and structure of the city.' -International Planning Studies

SHARON BAILEY GLASCO is Assistant Professor of History and History Department Chair at Linfield College, USA.

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