Eduardo Matos Mctezuma And Steinhardt

It seems to be the case that after reading both the passages from Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, that planning a city layout is a concept that requires strategic thinking in regard to a specific arrangement that represent something beyond itself. It is essentially a game plan with various aspects that come into play. In other words, more goes into the planning of a city then just the basis of drawing line representing streets and squares representing buildings. Nonetheless, this type of strategic thinking can be witnessed in both the Aztec and Chinese civilization in particularly, two of which are culturally completely different yet structurally similar, in the means that the thought process goes beyond just city building. …show more content…
In correlation, their beliefs of these concepts helped them shape and organize their cities in a way that pays tribute to their culture. For instance, the Main Pyramid in the center of the city was a direct symbolic representation of what the Aztecs believed was the center of the universe, considering their three levels of their cosmological perceptions unite here. Considering their awareness of the cosmos, it is exactly that the city and everyone around it is revolving around the center, in a way that represents orbiting. Not only that, but it conveys that the Aztecs are a people who are connected thoroughly with their culture in a way where everything that is built is modeled after it, because like the Main Pyramid, its also at the center. For the Aztecs, these buildings are not just building but rather physical embodiments of their myths, traditions, and overall