2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/150162This paper will appear in the Proceedings of the 1995 Santa Cruz Summer Institute. The paper is a survey of recent developments in the theory of toric varieties, including new constructions of toric varieties and relations to symplectic geometry, combinatorics and mirror symmetry.50 pages AMSTeX 2.1Algebraic Geometry14M25 (Primary)text