ホセ・デ・エスカンドンの都市計画モデルに関する考察

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Authors have been conducting the field research under the title 'Origin, Transformation, Alteration and Conservation of Urban Space of Colonial cities' since 1999. In the period of the Spanish urbanism in America, one of the most interesting creations was the Colony of Nuevo Santander, constructed 250 years ago. The formation of this group of spanish colonial cities was made at the same time, in the period (1749-1776), in the same area (Nuevo Santander of Mexico, now Tamaulipas region) in the same territorial net and designed all by the same person (Jose de Escandon) and with similar plan. But in that time all theses cities were planed under the influence of 250 years before of Spanish urban experience in America. This paper analyze Urban Model by Jose de Escandon. The design of the cities of D. Jose Escandon was based on the same grid model with square Plazas with dimensions that move between 124 varas and 224 varas. The form and distributition of the block depends on the dimension of the Plaza. This paper discusses mainly the differences between the Escandon's model and the model by Indias Laws.