Authors have been conducting the field research under the title ‘Origin, Transformation, Alteration and Conservation of Urban Space of Colonial cities’since 1999. Through the analysis of the colonial maps, authors discuss the urban process and the space formation of the city of Santo Domingo. In the period of the Spanish urbanism in America, the city of Santo Domingo was the first European city founded in the American continent by a grid form.
This study on Santo Domingo has been accomplished based on the analysis of old maps corresponding to colonial Spanish period. As cartographic database, 916 images and maps from AGI (The Archive of the Indies in Seville- Archivo de Indias de Sevilla), are used for analysis. In the analysis of the colonial maps and the fieldwork, we clarify the urban formation and the process of Santo Domingo until the present days, and we discuss their characteristics.
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