Professor Carlos Aguirre
Department of History
University of Oregon

Internet Resources on Cities in Latin America

Plan of the City of Mexico (1782)

The First City in the New World? (Smithsonian Institute)

The grid pattern of Latin American colonial cities (CEHOPU, Madrid)

Cities of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (CEHOPU, Madrid)

The Modern City. Bibliography on Urban Latin America (University of Guelph)

Paisajes Urbanos de América y Filipinas (Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla)

Mexico City: Inspiration or Impossibility? (BBC)

Buenos Aires Antiguo

Virtual Guide to Mexico City

The Changing Face of Inner-City Havana (Colin Campbell)

Megacities Project (Trinity College) (Includes sections on Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo)

The Mega City in Latin America (Alan Gilbert, ed.) [Full text available online]

"Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the Transformation of the Capital" (Diane Davis) (click on the "View" button to get a video of the lecture)

The City / La Ciudad. Faces of Latin American Immigrants in the US (PBS)

Carlos Monsivais: La Capital. Dos Murales Libidinosos del Siglo XX

Juan Villoro: La Ciudad de Mexico

D.F. La ciudad imposible (Special Issue of Letras Libres, August 2002)

Havana Architecture (by Matt Cousins)

José Guadalupe Posada: My Mexico (Online Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery)

Latin America: Its Cities and Ideas, José Luis Romero [full text available online]

Adrián Gorelik, Lo moderno en debate: ciudad, modernidad, modernización

Adrián Gorelik, Imaginarios urbanos e imaginación urbana

US Hispanic Population and Residential Segregation (Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research)

Hispanic Populations and their Residential Patterns in the Metropolis (Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research) [PDF File]