Las Acequias de la ciudad de México y sus repercusiones en la Arquitectura Habitacional del siglo XVIII

Abstract

Known for its canals or by its designation in the New Spain as  itches, the image of aquatic city of Mexico City was widespread in  he world. It would seem that those romantic references of the city  had been left alone in the lines written by the chroniclers, but when analyzing architectural plans and current cadastral can glimpse vestiges of this lakeside past. This research is done by analyzing eighteenth century plans, through identification of existing ditches in Mexico City during this period, and its current trajectory in a plane, performing both an analysis of their influence on residential architecture, determining the characteristics of the houses in the path of the canals, by classifying canal houses, depending on the level of relationship between these two constructive genera.