Historic Urbanism, Urban Morphology, and Urban Design in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Autores: María José Piñeira Mantiñán, Reinaldo Paul Pérez Machado
• Localización: The Routledge handbook of urban studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: cities, urban processes, and policies / Jesús M. González Pérez (ed. lit.), Clara Irazábal (ed. lit.), Rubén Camilo Lois González (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 9780367677404, págs. 54-91
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter will review the history of urban planning and the evolution of urban morphology in Latin America and the Caribbean with a journey through historical cartography. It will examine the formal outcomes of the Law of the Indies; the urban transformations of many cities by the nineteenth-century process of haussmannisation; the rapid expansion experienced by several major cities in the twentieth century fuelled by external and internal migration in the context of industrialisation; the emergence and growth of informal settlements; and the more recent proliferation of gated communities, shopping malls and other urban artefacts of neoliberalism and socio-spatial segregation. In this way, it will be possible to understand the urban form of Latin American and Caribbean cities by analysing six case studies: La Habana, Cartagena de Indias, México City, São Paulo, La Plata and Brasilia.