AZTEC CITY COMPARATIVE WITH COLONIAL CITY

AZTEC CITY

COLONIAL CITY

1 The cities created by the Aztecs are structured to follow a previous scheme, representing an architectural tradition laden political and religious sentiments, following as a guide to the cities of Teotihuacan and Tula 2nd Tenochtitlan was the great Aztec city located on an island in the great lake of Texcoco, where they found the sign of the god Huitzilopochtli, which gave rise to its foundation as a city 3rd year indicated by the Mexica of the first foundation of the city was the year 2 houses or 1325 AD, the second foundation is the arrival of the Aztecs to the point made by Huitzilopochtli and exercised the temple worshiping this god and the third foundation is given to the rise of the first Mexican dynasty in 1375 AD 4 ° are established on the island Tenochtitlan, exercise their hunting skills acquired as nomads 5 ° The Mexica learn to sow in the chinampas, away from the gathering and hunting, the use chinampas, gives rise to a permanent establishment of the new city which stood 6 ° The Aztec people gain power, building their first temple and using the resources of Texcoco Lake gave them, exchanging the products of wood and stones to other villages to continue building your city 7 ° The living area is divided into 4 campaigns or large-hueicalpulli-quarters of Huitzilopochtli ordered through their priests, setting the trace of the future city, ordered the division of the 4 campaigns in smaller neighborhoods, establishing a sub-calputeteo means in each, and the population distributed according to their ancestry (Gussinyer, 2001, pp105-106) According to Michael E. 8th Smith had three fundamental principles for the urban of Mesoamerican cities, the concentration of public architecture in a central area, the epicenter, the epicenter of urban planning but not in the residential area, and the use of public space as a feature basic structure on which urban space (Smith, 2006, pp279) 9 ° In the ceremonial center focused the temple dedicated to the chief god of the city, the palaces and administrative buildings, as well as several squares of different sizes 10th Tenochtitlan center structure as they grow in size and defined development into 3 parts: the teocalli which is the core of religious activity, real or tecpan houses that are the seat of power and military civic square that was the tianquiztli, where commercial activities were carried 11 ° For the Aztecs the relationship between the city and its environment was embedded in cosmological structure: they were in an ordered universe in natural phenomena, considered sacred, human complementary, the inhabitants of their city Tenochtitlan perceived as the center of the world

1 in 1530 is proposed regularity in all American cities, an original style defined urban structure based on the square grid with the center Problems arise 2nd to end the traces of the cities founded in the sixteenth century, suggests solutions for transfers of entire cities and rehabilitation to the construction of new towns planned In 1915 Wolffin 3rd raised a contrast in American architectural constructions going on a Baroque Revival 4 ° In the late sixteenth century, Hispanic Americans were plotting and starting to build more than 200 cities with wide streets, equal and parallel, each of which offered on both ends, not finished off broad perspectives on monuments 5 ° The founder of cities, after 1530, gave an indication only three numbers: the number of blocks, the length of the block and the width of the street 6 ° The Baroque style in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Hispanic cities leave no footprint in terms of the architectural structure, or very small but very pronounced in the urban landscape through the covers, balconies, towers, as shown graphically in the Plaza de Panama 7 ° Two salient features of the Spanish American city Grid-rigorous geometry and functional centrality trace its square-register as the American version of the Renaissance ideal city Square 8th highest since conceived as such, be prepared for spatial composition and monumental city's most notable 9 ° The cities founded by Spanish in the s. XVI did not develop in the following centuries due to the impact of the various factors that functionally differentiated by the different role each performance 10th New cities as San Juan de Ulua or porto belo both made in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, enhanced by religious congregations, then influenced views in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, with a trace of canonical grid as a square of 4 blocks containing the church in varying sizes 11th urban consolidation than in American cities has been going to the eighteenth century, which loses the predominant rural environment, and begin to consolidate the urban environment, especially in the colonial capital, creating malls as places public, the centralization of power around what is the square, and the construction of access roads with increasing influx