Environmental Microanalysis Of A City In New Spain: Puebla De Los Angeles

By applying a model of spatial microanalysis, this article attempts to demonstrate a viable way of studying the urban and environmental functioning of a city in New Spain. The author suggests an inventory of the natural, demographic, and urban elements that interacted in the city's conformation, in order to offer a new way of territorial reading, based on ecological similarities and on the racial, social, and economic mechanisms for the assignation and appropriation of space and natural resources. The results obtained through this set of interrelations allow us to understand the coexistence of different patterns of intraurban cohesion and their different degrees of biological vulnerability.