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Open Building
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Orbis in orbem
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La casa de la ciudad de México
"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the 1980s"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
México
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Plant Genetic Conservation
The recent development of ideas on biodiversity conservation was already being considered almost three-quarters of a century ago for crop plants and the wild species related to them, by the Russian geneticist N.!. Vavilov. He was undoubtedly the first scientist to understand the impor tance for humankind of conserving for utilization the genetic diversity of our ancient crop plants and their wild relatives from their centres of diversity. His collections showed various traits of adaptation to environ mental extremes and biotypes of crop diseases and pests which were unknown to most plant breeders in the first quarter of the twentieth cen tury. Later, in the 1940s-1960s scientists began to re...
La urbanización indígena de la ciudad de México
"Analyzes the Plano en Papel Maguey, an early colonial Indian map of a section of Tenochtitlán, to better understand the city's 16th-century urban structure. Well-illustrated monograph and valuable document for study of the early development of Mexico City and Spanish colonial influence on pre-existing urban structure"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
