Greetings, I am studying architecture, and i recently dscovered the Laws of The Indies, i find it fascinating but there is little info in the wiki.
I am especially curious about the architectural connotations, urban planings, and how these realted to public life of these towns, were they succesfull in their goals?
In what way were these laws groundbreaking and influential?.
Anything connected to architecture, urban planing is interesting for me.
AND sidequestion but realted:
are there similar acts in relation to the portugese and the inka? I wtote about inka architecture before, so I would naturally like to research the colonization process in terms of built enviroment, urbanism.
Thank you all in advance. (have an edu email, but only know english besides my native(HU))
I can speak more to the Inka - Early Colonial transition than to later Spanish urbanism.
Steve Wernke's Negotiated Settlements is a great look at how both the Inka and Spanish empires manipulated urban space and how incorporated communities likewise expressed some amount of architectural agency.
https://www.amazon.com/Negotiated-Settlements-Communities-Landscapes-Colonialism/dp/0813060931
This is a journal article by Wernke dealing with the same vein:
Here's another good look at Spanish resettlement (though I think this one gets a little more deeply anthropological) by Parker VanWalkenburgh).
https://www.academia.edu/31701283/Unsettling_Time_Persistence_and_Memory_in_Spanish_Colonial_Peru
If you check those out you'll likely find other references in their bibliographies that may be more interesting from an architecture/planning perspective.