(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-08-23) Sánchez, Susy
This article examines the soundscape, both commemorative and disruptive, experienced in the city of Lima during the War of Independence, focusing on the sounds produced by church bells and cannons. Even though, in Lima, patriots and royalists never fought a pitched battle, the war resoundingly marked the city’s aural environment. Disruptive noise emitted by church bells and cannons during the war greatly exceeded in intensity and duration the commemorative sounds sponsored by the independent government, and even had the power to change it dramatically.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-08-23) Bell, Martha
Lima’s city wall was completed in 1687, creating a physical boundary between the urban space and its rural surroundings. Yet well before this date, the division between city and countryside had been established. Water governance wasone arena in which this can be observed. Officially, all water in Lima and its rural surroundings fell under the jurisdiction of Lima’s cabildo. However, the viceroy and Real Audiencia were also frequently involved in water governance, sometimes in direct conflict with the cabildo. This article analyzes the debate over the roles of these branches of government during the entire colonial period.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-08-23) Jímenez Jímenez, Ismael
The unpromising state of the colonial Peruvian economy, where prices were rising and productivity was at a standstill, led to a great slowdown in the tributary income of the Monarchy. In the face of this situation, the best solution to increase economic activity and swell the coffers of the Royal Tax Office was to hand over tax collection to Lima’s Consulado de Comercio. From the 1660s through the beginning of the eighteenth century, there was constant negotiation in Peru between the consigner, the Crown, and the consignees, the merchants.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-08-23) Ramos, Horacio
This essay illustrates how the debates surrounding the neo-colonial redevelopmentof Lima’s Plaza de Armas (1940-1952) altered perceptions of the city’s urban modernization and architectural heritage. Analyzing projects dating back to the turn of the 20th century reveals that the redevelopment was part of a series ofurban interventions involving the destruction of architectural heritage and the construction of major avenues and buildings. The promoters of functionalismcriticized the redevelopment, causing this type of urban intervention and the neo-colonial style as «anachronistic».
