Evaluación histórica de las tendencias de diseño de espacios públicos en la Ciudad de México (1a. Parte)

Abstract

The urban public space understood as spatialunits integrated by streets, malls and parks, has become along the history of many types of production. The central area of Mexico city exemplifies the evolution of the designer concepts, that determine the formal qualities of the urban spaces, and are ideology expressions than in each period have prevailed. That evolution is revising in the present text, covering the prehispanic and colonial periods, besides 19th century and the first years of 20th century, analyzing conceptual and morphology difference between them.