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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| Format: | bookPart |
| Language: | eng |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/36339 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/36339 |