| | The Art of Urbanism How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by William L. Fash, Ann Cyphers, Robert H. Cobean, Leonardo López Luján, Contributor-Susan Gillespie, Anna Di Castro, Barbara W. Fash, David C. Grove, Dan Healan, Amparo Robles, Dr Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Rex Koontz, Alfredo Lopez Austin, Joyce Marcus, Patricia Plunket, William Ringle, William Saturno, Alexandre Tokovinine, Gabriela Urunuela, Zoltan Paulinyi, George J. Bey, Leonardo Lâ¢Pez Lujân, Leonardo L¢Pez Lujn, William Leonard Fash Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2012 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-378-4, ISBN: 0-88402-378-8
"The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment. Themes in ..."
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