Constructing Mexico City

1. Shaping the Colonial City
Sharon Bailey Glasco

2. Splendor and Misery in the Viceregal Capital: The Physical, Material, and Political Environment of Bourbon Mexico City
Sharon Bailey Glasco

3. In Sickness and Health: Disease, Healing, and the Urban Population
Sharon Bailey Glasco

4. A Basic Necessity: Water and the Urban Environment
Sharon Bailey Glasco

5. Restoring Order Out of Chaos: Garbage Collection in Theory and Practice
Sharon Bailey Glasco

6. Mastery over the Streets: Drainage, Street Paving, and Renovation of Urban Space
Sharon Bailey Glasco

7. Concluding Thoughts
Sharon Bailey Glasco

Keywords: Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Latin American Culture, Social Structure, Social Inequality, History of the Americas, Modern History, Area Studies