La Capital: The Biography of Mexico CityThe history of Mexico City is a sweeping, dramatic saga of individuals confronting victory and defeat, opulence and misery, euphoria and catastrophe. A colorful panorama, told by a Latin American correspondent of the New York Times. 16 pages of photos. |
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... already had put in place , including a grid pattern of streets and canals ,
flatroofed villas and palaces blanketed with flowers and greenery , and
neighborhoods dominated by municipal and religious buildings clustered around
open squares .
... already had put in place , including a grid pattern of streets and canals ,
flatroofed villas and palaces blanketed with flowers and greenery , and
neighborhoods dominated by municipal and religious buildings clustered around
open squares .
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The only relatively dry zone in the capital was the Plaza Mayor and its
surrounding government buildings and Cathedral . It became known as the “ isle
of curs ” for the thousands of hungry dogs huddled there to escape the waters .
Describing ...
The only relatively dry zone in the capital was the Plaza Mayor and its
surrounding government buildings and Cathedral . It became known as the “ isle
of curs ” for the thousands of hungry dogs huddled there to escape the waters .
Describing ...
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19 Housing conditions had also worsened . Besides the twenty thousand or more
people described by Humboldt in the early 1800s as living on the streets , there
were thousands more who squatted in the roofless shells of buildings destroyed ...
19 Housing conditions had also worsened . Besides the twenty thousand or more
people described by Humboldt in the early 1800s as living on the streets , there
were thousands more who squatted in the roofless shells of buildings destroyed ...
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La capital: the biography of Mexico City
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Περιεχόμενα
Prologue | 3 |
The Valley and Its First Inhabitants | 9 |
The Cannibal Empire | 26 |
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Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας
| Τίτλος | La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City |
| Συγγραφέας | Jonathan Kandell |
| Έκδοση | εικονογραφημένη |
| Εκδότης | Random House, 1988 |
| Πρωτότυπο από | το Πανεπιστήμιο της Βιρτζίνια |
| Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις | 7 Μαρ. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0394540697, 9780394540696 |
| Μέγεθος | 640 σελίδες |
| Εξαγωγή αναφοράς | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |