Taxonomy
system of classification (design, function, social actors)
Contiguous
sharing a common border
Continental
Not Hawaii, Alaska, or US territories
Historiography
history of the history we write
Urban
physical and built environment
Urbanization
different than urban, has to do with creation of relationships, i.e. services of the place like infrastructure, not having to do with population
City
a legal title, recognition of importance, invokes protection, citizen responsibility
John Winthrop’s “A City on a Hill” Sermon
creating communities where you’re surveilled and responsible to a higher power… “A Model of Christian Charity”
V. Gordon Childe’s “The Urban Revolution”
3 stages of human development: neolithic, urban, industrial
5 accepted stages of urbanization
- European colonial development (1600s-1810)
- Continental urban system (1810-1870)
- Immigration and industrial heartland (1870-1920)
- Transformation of cities (1920-1970)
- Stabilization and communication (1970-now)
Thomas Moore’s “Utopia” (1516)
no greed, corruption, or power struggles because there’s no money or private property
Taxonomies of Spanish Towns
- presidios: military outposts and forts
- missions: Christianizing efforts
- pueblos: civic and residential life
Laws of the Indies (1573)
- layout and colonial grid
- building standards
- indigenous land
- sanitation and waste
features of a pueblo
- grid
- central plaza
- fortifications
