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

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

Rosalva Loreto López

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.

2008

Nueva España, Puebla, Siglo XVIII, ecología, siglo XIX, urbanización

Historia Mexicana El Colegio de México

El Colegio de México, A.C.

Latin America. Spanish America, History America