Urban Development and the Panama Canal Zone: The Case of Fort Clayton

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Historical Background: Transformed Landscapes and the Impact of Human-Nature Interaction in the Interoceanic Region (6000 BC-1950) -- 1.1 Environmental Description of the Pacific Transisthmian Region -- 1.2 Background: The Cultural Landscape and Environmental Changes in the Interoceanic Region -- 1.2.1 Pre-Hispanic Stage -- 1.2.2 Impact of Interoceanic Transit During the Colony -- 1.2.3 The Interoceanic Railway Metabolism Landscape -- 1.2.4 Impact of French Canal Construction -- 1.3 United States Canal Construction (1904-1914) -- 1.3.1 Environmental Transformations of the US Canal Construction -- 1.4 The Defenses of the Panama Canal in the Early Twentieth Century -- 1.4.1 The Canal Defense Plan and Cronkhite Commission -- 1.4.2 Before Clayton: Environmental Historic Approach -- 1.4.3 Livestock as a Defense Strategy for the Canal and Its Impact in the Repopulation of the Forests (1916-1950) -- References -- 2 Fort Clayton's Urbanism and Architecture -- 2.1 Brief Background of Early Twentieth-Century Urban Planning -- 2.1.1 Urban Planning, Zoning, and Racial Segregation in the Canal Zone -- 2.2 Historical Stages of Urban Growth of Fort Clayton -- 2.2.1 Period of Urban Military Development -- 2.2.2 Stages of Suburb Expansions of Fort Clayton and Their Formal Background -- 2.3 The Architecture of Fort Clayton Through the Twentieth Century -- 2.3.1 Architecture from 1919 to 1922 -- 2.3.2 Architecture from 1923 to 1932 -- 2.3.3 Architecture from 1933 to 1939 -- 2.3.4 Architecture from 1932 to 1939 -- 2.3.5 Architecture from 1940 to 1943 -- 2.3.6 Architecture from 1948 to 1949 -- 2.3.7 Architecture from 1950 to 1960 -- 2.3.8 Architecture from 1960 to 1969 -- 2.4 Fort Clayton Urban Housing Final Review -- References.