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vii Acknowledgments We are especially grateful to Malcolm Quantrill, who encouraged this project from the very beginning, when part of it was only a doctoral dissertation , and devoted countless hours in College Station and Queretaro to guiding it to completion.We thank him also for the academic exchanges he has promoted between our institutions, Texas A&M University and Monterrey Tec, for the many lectures he has given in our School of Architecture over the past six years, and, above all, for his friendship. Special thanks to the authorities of Monterrey Tec Campus Queretaro, who provided the initial funding for the project and maintained official support for it through the creation of the Research Center onArchitecture and New Urbanism, where the authors found the ideal place to conduct their research. We also thank Martha Ramos Herrera,Pedro Mena,Nuria Hernandez, and Miriam Martinez for helping to prepare the graphic material and Arturo Pérez y Pérez for photographs of documents and archival materials . Deirdre Cleary assisted with the translation from the Spanish. ...

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