When the Spaniards settled in Latin America, they immediately surrounded themselves with cities. Equating civilization with urban existence, the early conquerors of the New World rapidly established themselves as urban lords. Latin American cities then be

Chapter 1 The City as Vision-The Development of Urban Culture in Latin America Chapter 2 Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest Chapter 3 The Aztecs Under Spanish Rule Chapter 4 Viceregal Lima in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 5 Colonial Buenos Aires Chapter 6 Bahia in the Late Colonial Period Chapter 7 Bogot· in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 8 Lima in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 9 Buenos Aires in the Early Twentieth Century Chapter 10 The Transformation of S"o Paulo Chapter 11 Another Sao Paulo Chapter 12 Mexico's Megalopolis

Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Mark D. Szuchman