... and encouraging the creation of corporate plazas while discouraging excessively tall buildings. São Paulo Alphaville Verticalization apartment buildings Brasília buildings isolated on lots in Copacabana Superquadras superblocks in Brasília Brazil industrialization and urbanization in Florianópolis...

...The plan-seams run across the city from southwest to northeast and separate the residential plan-units. Each plan-seam includes a large plaza with an usnu complex for public ceremony and proclamation; the platform mound in each plaza has been excavated and displays evidence...

... and the maintenance of social relationships. Archaeological work at these early plaza sites has focused on establishing the age and stratigraphy of the associated mounds, leaving little known about the everyday activities that occurred around or between them. In this chapter, two case studies from separate areas...

... Oroncota: Residence (Room-2-b) AA36938 (T10932A) 448±28 1431–1452 1417–1475 Unit C-2, Stratum 2-c—hearth associated to living floor Oroncota: Room-1, TW in main plaza complex AA36939 (T10933A) 476±31 1422–1444 1407–1454 Unit C-12-C-13, Stratum. 3-e, midden from public...

... without burials moving southward (smaller mounds are omitted for clarity). Figure 2.2. Four interpretive models of partitioned monumental space around a central plaza. Each model rests on a different ethnographic analogy: (a) peripheral monuments as the seats of lesser elites all...

...This chapter treats the cities covered by this book as a group to consider urban planning in the eastern lowlands. The discussion begins by rank ordering the cities in terms of size and then comparing plazas, carved monuments, ball courts, and causeways to illuminate similarities and differences...