Richard P. Schaedel & Jorge E. Hardoy 
Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginning to the Present [PDF ebook] 

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