寄与者Logan Wagner, Hal Box, Susan Kline Morehead.
一般注記The primordial sea: forming open space in Mesoamerica : Mesoamerican concept of space ; Mountains and Altepetis ; Caves, quatrefoils, and sunken courts ; Types of open space in Mesoamerica : Triad centering; U-shaped courts; Quadrangles ; Quincunx: symbol of the cosmos ; Ballcourts ; The sunken court of Teopantecuanitlán ; The Dallas plaque: a cosmogram -- Forming Spanish towns in Mesoamerican culture ; People and ideas ; The invasion ; The Europeans making contact ; European plazas in the early sixteenth century ; Origins of the plaza ; Building new world towns : Types of towns; First acts and encounters ; Laws of the Indies ; Conversion ; Quincunx patios ; Relaciones geográficas -- Sixteenth-century communal open spaces (five hundred years later) ; Caves and crevices : Amecameca, State of México; Zoquizoquipan, Hidalgo; Valladolid, Yucatán; Quincunxial arrangements : Atlatlahuacan, Morelos; Huejotzingo, Puebla; Huaquechula, Puebla; Zacualpan de Amilpas, Morelos ; Terraced mountains : Molango, Hidalgo; Achiutla, Oaxaca; Yanhuitlán, Oaxaca ; Sunken courts : Tepoztlán, Morelos; Tochimilco, Puebla; Calpan, Puebla ; Ballcourts and bullrings : Villa Díaz Ordaz, Oaxaca; Tlanalapa, Hidalgo; Tepeapulco, Hidalgo ; Open space ensembles : Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca; Tlacolula, Oaxaca; Otumba de Gómez Farías, State of México; Tlacochahuaya, Oaxaca; Tepeaca, Puebla; Etla, Oaxaca ; Bishop Quiroga's utopias in Michoacán : Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán; Pátzcuaro, Michoacán; Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacán; Erongarícuaro, Michoacán; Angahuan, Michoacán ; Visible overlays and deliberate alignments : Mitla, Oaxaca; Hacienda Xaaga, Oaxaca; Teposcolula, Oaxaca; Coixtlahuaca, Oaxaca; Epazoyucan, Hidalgo ; The Yucatáne experience : Chapels, Yucatán; Tibolón, Yucatán; Izamal, Yucatán -- Origins and evolution -- Epilogue: Plazas in the twenty-first century ; The San Miguel example ; Qualities of successful plazas ; Sprawl and the American myth -- Appendix : Measured drawings: plans of towns.