LAIS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Santa Fe, Granada, Urban Design, Walt Whitman Rostow

• School: UCSB
• Department: Latin American and Iberian Studies
• Course: LAIS 10
• Professor: Hugo Santo Gomez

Document Summary

Prompt for writing assignment #3: w. w. rostow suggested that development is an attainable goal that can be reached by any society. However, it requires a society to abandon its socio-cultural traditions and overcome pre- Newtonian thinking in favor of science and technology. Rostow assumed that all those undeveloped nations were some sort of archaic remains of a pre-industrial past. Explain the way a. gunder frank"s main critiques respond to rostow"s scheme in the context of latin american nations. Cities, towns, and villages: the grid plan puzzle. The reconquista and growing expansion of the christian kingdoms at the. Foundations of new settlements and colonies of christians. Some of these were designed according to the grid-plan inspired by the. Founded by the spanish king and queen isabel and ferdinand in 1491, during the final staged of the reconquista.