Atlantic urban transfers in early modernity: Mazagão, from Africa to the Americas

The history of the Portuguese city of Mazagão is also the history of a journey over the Atlantic. Designed and settled in 1541 in Northwest Africa, the motivation for the grid layout of this fortress-city may be interpreted as a compromise between the urban knowledge developed in neighboring example...

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Autor principal: Correia, Jorge (author)
Formato: bookPart
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2013
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/36339
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/36339