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Article: View from Lima: The capital of Peru, Lima was once a city that lived in contented harmony with its strange ecology and landscape. But now it has gluttonously devoured much of what made the city work.(Brief Article)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Among contemporary Third World cities, Lima may be a case to show how the fierce process of contemporary urbanization has infused irrationality into what, until half a century ago, had proven to be, for over four hundred years, a town that had experienced growth harmoniously and organically. Founded by Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of the Inca Empire in 1535, its urban origins were the outcome of the rational application of the Renaissance principles that the Spanish Crown adopted brilliantly for the layout of new cities. These had to be scattered throughout the New World in order to ground swiftly and efficiently the spectacular process of colonization that ...
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