Socio-spatial organization in prehispanic and colonial Mexico. Continuities and ruptures.

Abstract

The progress in research that are presented in this article about the spatial organization in Mexico between the prehispanic and colonial age, arise as a rst attempt to understand the continuities and ruptures between both ages, the main goal is to achieve the comprehension of the fundamentals of the current con guration of the territory. The understanding of the current features of the territorial organization requires a vision to rescue history from the epistemic position of the complexity, allowing elucidate the prehispanic and colonial process which have interlaced in a relationship, at the same time, of antagonism, complementarity and implication. It is assumed, therefore, to consider that there is a strong link between past and present; the starting point of the territorial con guration conditioned its course up to the current prominence of the megalopolis of the valley of Mexico City.