Historical and anthropological evidence indicates that kinship was a
major factor affecting access to housing, household composition during the life
cycle, ownership of property, and the social fabric of urban neighborhoods in
Latin American cities. Despite this wealth of evidence, the influence of kinship in
the spatial organization of the Latin American city has not been analyzed. This
essay notes the importance of kinship in the development of colonial and early
nineteenth-century Latin American cities, particularly in their patterns of house
hold composition, population density and land use, and in the division of social
space.
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