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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Latin American and Caribbean ; v. 4 |
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Latin American and Caribbean
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""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""José MarÃa Velasco, View of the Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel, 1877 ""; ""Monument to Cuauhtémoc, 1901.""; "" Indio Verde on the Calzada de la Viga, 1907.""; ""Monument to Benito Juárez, 1911.""; ""Monument to Independence.""; "" Map of the Lakes in the Valley of Mexico, of the Gran Canal and of the Tunnel of the DesagÃ?e.""; ""The Gran Canal of DesagÃ?e, 1900.""; ""The Tunnel of Tequixquiac, 1900.""; ""Tables""; ""Table 1: Expansion of Mexico City, 1858-1910"" |
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""Table 2: Mexico City�s population by cuartel according to the 1890 census""""Table 3: Number of premature deaths in Mexico City, 1900-09.""; ""Table 4: Public works undertaken by the government contracted with foreign capital, 1877-1910""; ""Table 5: Public works undertaken directly by the ""; ""Aknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 -- Urban Ideas and Projects for Mexico City""; ""The Late Eighteenth Century""; ""Urban Space and public Health""; ""Chapter 2 -- The Control of the Environment""; ""The Community of Hygienists""; ""The Contradictory Proofs of Progress in the City"" |
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""Dangerous Elements""""Elements of a Healthy City""; ""Chapter 3 -- The Expansion and Diagnosis of the City""; ""The Expansion of the City""; ""The Superior Sanitation Council and the Sanitary Code""; ""The Memoirs of the Sanitary Inspectors""; ""The Diagnosis of the City""; ""Chapter 4 -- The Modern City""; ""Towards the Secular City""; ""The Image of the Modern City""; ""Monuments and the 1877 Decree""; ""Cuauhtémoc""; ""AhuÃtzotl and Itzcóatl""; ""Benito Juárez and Independence""; ""Monumental Space and Cleanliness""; ""Chapter 5 -- The Conquest of Water""; ""The Problem: Water"" |
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The Drainage SystemThe Sewage System -- Hygiene in the Centennial Celebrations and the Porfirian Inheritance -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Untitled |
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Print version record |
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Public health -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History
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Sanitary engineering -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History
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Monuments -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History
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Monuments
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Public health
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Sanitary engineering
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Mexico City (Mexico) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084624
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Mexico -- Mexico City
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781552384077 |
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1552384071 |
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