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Book Ciudades para cambiar la vida

Download or read book Ciudades para cambiar la vida written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diez principios para ciudades que funcionen

Download or read book Diez principios para ciudades que funcionen written by Marcelo Corti and published by Café de las ciudades. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una ciudad que funciona permite distintas alternativas de encuentro, relación, conflicto y aislamiento entre un grupo muy amplio y diverso de personas. Si esto no es así, la ciudad no funciona o funciona mal. Los sistemas de transporte, las normativas urbanísticas, la oferta de viviendas, servicios y espacios públicos o las condiciones del medio ambiente –o todos ellos...– dificultan el encuentro y la relación, exacerban o invisibilizan los conflictos, impiden (o por el contrario, obligan a) el aislamiento de las personas, reducen la diversidad de la experiencia humana y dejan a mucha, demasiada gente afuera del uso y disfrute de los atributos urbanos. La idea que fundamenta este libro es que las ciudades no funcionan, pero pueden funcionar.

Book Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol  75

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol 75 written by Katherine D. McCann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.

Book Las Ciudades Planetarias de Luz

Download or read book Las Ciudades Planetarias de Luz written by David K. Miller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pure Space  Spanish Edition

Download or read book Pure Space Spanish Edition written by Elisa Silva and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book may seem a simple accumulation of twenty-one public space projects in eight Latin American cities. On closer inspection, the presentation of project descriptions, photographs, and annotated drawings reflects a concern to analytically explain the operative aspects at work. The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in spontaneous settlements. Rather, it goes beyond the aims of an index of best practices. It is intended, instead, as an empirical base for a critical and theoretical engagement with the problematic of development, social inclusion, public investment, (in)formal settlement, civil society and the public sphere. The publication achieves its final function at this third level, by providing a compelling argument to expand the agency of architects and urban designers and creatively find ways of justifying, financing, and building public spaces in communities —spaces that have a catalytic effectiveness in achieving significant urban and social transformation. This book was awarded by a Graham Foundation Grant and CAF Development Bank of Latin America. FEATURED CASE STUDIES: CONSERVATION 72 Linear parks along the Estero Salado | Guayaquil, Ecuador 80 National Park Babil.nia and Chap.u Mangueira | R.o de Janeiro, Brasil 88 Urban agriculture along the Rimac River | Lima, Peru WASTE MANAGEMENT 96 Moravia Ecological Park | Medellin, Colombia 104 Plaza La Cruz, La Palomera | Caracas, Venezuela RISKMANAGEMENT 112 El Guasmo Beach, floodable park | Guayaquil, Ecuador 120 Safety plazas in Santa Mar.a El Triunfo | Lima, Peru 128 Recovery of the Juan Bobo Creek | Medellin, Colombia INFRASTRUCTURE 136 Northeast metrocable parks Comuna 1, La Popular | Medell.n, Colombia 144 Barrio Las Independencias escalators and walkways | Medellin, Colombia 152 Funicular in Dona Marta | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 160 Complexo do Alem.o | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 168 Ecotecnia Urbana Miravalle | Mexico City, Mexico PAVEMENT, PATHS AND THE SPACE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS 176 Pavement, paths and stairs Cerro Santo Doming and Cerro Toro | Valpara.so, Chile 184 Cerro Santa Ana urban rehabilitation | Guayaquil, Ecuador 192 Fernando Botero Library | Medellin, Colombia 200 Moravia Cultural Center | Medellin, Colombia 208 Espa.o Crian.a and community programs | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 216 Plaza in Villa Tranquila | Buenos Aires, Argentina ACTIVITY 224 Casa Kolacho Comuna 13 | Medellin, Colombia 232 AfroReggae Cultural Center | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 240 Alto Per. | Lima, Peru 248 El Calvario Puertas Abiertas | Caracas, Venezuela

Book Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio Economic Systems and Social Work

Download or read book Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio Economic Systems and Social Work written by José Luis Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this book is not only to present recent studies and advances in the field of social science research, but also to stimulate discussion on related practical issues concerning statistics, mathematics, and economics. Accordingly, a broad range of tools and techniques that can be used to solve problems on these topics are presented in detail in this book, which offers an ideal reference work for all researchers interested in effective quantitative and qualitative tools. The content is divided into three major sections. The first, which is titled “Social work”, collects papers on problems related to the social sciences, e.g. social cohesion, health, and digital technologies. Papers in the second part, “Education and teaching issues,” address qualitative aspects, education, learning, violence, diversity, disability, and ageing, while the book’s final part, “Recent trends in qualitative and quantitative models for socio-economic systems and social work”, features contributions on both qualitative and quantitative issues. The book is based on a scientific collaboration, in the social sciences, mathematics, statistics, and economics, among experts from the “Pablo de Olavide” University of Seville (Spain), the “University of Defence” of Brno (Czech Republic), the “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) and “Alexandru Ioan Cuza University” of Iaşi (Romania). The contributions, which have been selected using a peer-review process, examine a wide variety of topics related to the social sciences in general, while also highlighting new and intriguing empirical research conducted in various countries. Given its scope, the book will appeal, in equal measure, to sociologists, mathematicians, statisticians and philosophers, and more generally to scholars and specialists in related fields.

Book Urbanismo Regenerativo

Download or read book Urbanismo Regenerativo written by Landlab and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather generate new ones that ensure compatibility between economic and social prosperity and nature. Santander, Hábitat Futuro (Santander, Future Habitat) is the city model created from this methodology, a proposal for the transformation of this city for the year 2055. It is an open model based on innovation and citizen participation that prepares and adapts the territory for the different scenarios to come. Santander, Habitat Futuro is a guide that directs the commitment of the different social, economic and political agents towards a common goal: to achieve a circular, sustainable, resilient, vertebrate, prosperous, vital and inclusive city. A model that, due to its innovative nature, can serve as an example to other intermediate cities around the world.

Book Ciudades para las personas

Download or read book Ciudades para las personas written by Sierra Navarro, Isabel and published by Ediciones Díaz de Santos. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si es cierto que cada semana emigran a una ciudad 1,3 millones de personas enel mundo, es muy probable que más de 6.000 millones de personas se concentrenen unas 21 mega ciudades en solo 30 años. Una de las preocupaciones que generaesta tendencia es la complejidad en la gestión de los recursos naturales, lostransportes, la oferta de vivienda y servicios para todos y, desde ese puntode vista, está emergiendo con fuerza el movimiento de las Smart Cities, que prioriza la racionalidad, comodidad y eficiencia en la gestión de la ciudad, deacuerdo a las tecnologías de la información y comunicación. Pero también nos preocupa un aspecto fundamental para la calidad de vida de los habitantes de esas ciudades, partiendo también del conocimiento que nos aportan las Ciencias Sociales y ambientales que estudian desde hace años los fenómenos urbanos: la segmentación social, el aumento de las desigualdades, las amenazas climáticas yde contaminación del aire o el agua y, especialmente, el impacto que esos fenómenos tienen sobre el bienestar social y la salud de las personas.Tenemos muchos retos en ese sentido, y en este libro se abordan de forma exhaustiva teniendo como eje el conjunto de las necesidades humanas, sus contextosde vida, y aquellos aspectos urbanos que más inciden en ellos, pudiendo convertirse en factores de riesgo para la cohesión social y la salud urbana. En estaobra encontramos la fundamentación científica que avala la relación estrechaentre el entorno urbano y la calidad de vida de las personas, analizando espacios como la vivienda, el modelo urbanístico, los transportes, la interacción social y el medio ambiente, siempre desde el punto de vista de las personas y sus necesidades como seres biológicos y sociales. Podemos encontrar también comentarios y propuestas de expertos que ofrecen una visión de conjunto orientadaa la mejora urbana desde un punto de vista global y también casos reales de buenas prácticas, animando a los lectores a completar con sus propias experiencias.También se aporta una visión multidisciplinar -psicología social, ambiental yarquitectura- para definir propuestas de análisis de la realidad urbana, sistemas de planificación integrales y mecanismos de participación ciudadana que apoyen la estrategia de la ciudad para todos, una ciudad construida por y para los ciudadanos, que incorpore las técnicas más innovadoras desde el punto de vista del urbanismo y la arquitectura, pero también de la sostenibilidad medioambiental y la innovación social: ciudades saludables (como recomienda la OMS) ysostenibles (en el marco de la Agencia Europea del Medio Ambiente), pensadaspara la vida y la convivencia.

Book Pure Space

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elisa Silva
  • Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
  • Release : 2020-08-11
  • ISBN : 163840917X
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Pure Space written by Elisa Silva and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book may seem a simple accumulation of twenty-one public space projects in eight Latin American cities. On closer inspection, the presentation of project descriptions, photographs, and annotated drawings reflects a concern to analytically explain the operative aspects at work. The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in spontaneous settlements. Rather, it goes beyond the aims of an index of best practices. It is intended, instead, as an empirical base for a critical and theoretical engagement with the problematic of development, social inclusion, public investment, (in)formal settlement, civil society and the public sphere. The publication achieves its final function at this third level, by providing a compelling argument to expand the agency of architects and urban designers and creatively find ways of justifying, financing, and building public spaces in communities —spaces that have a catalytic effectiveness in achieving significant urban and social transformation. This book was awarded by a Graham Foundation Grant and CAF Development Bank of Latin America. FEATURED CASE STUDIES: CONSERVATION 72 Linear parks along the Estero Salado | Guayaquil, Ecuador 80 National Park Babil.nia and Chap.u Mangueira | R.o de Janeiro, Brasil 88 Urban agriculture along the Rimac River | Lima, Peru WASTE MANAGEMENT 96 Moravia Ecological Park | Medellin, Colombia 104 Plaza La Cruz, La Palomera | Caracas, Venezuela RISKMANAGEMENT 112 El Guasmo Beach, floodable park | Guayaquil, Ecuador 120 Safety plazas in Santa Mar.a El Triunfo | Lima, Peru 128 Recovery of the Juan Bobo Creek | Medellin, Colombia INFRASTRUCTURE 136 Northeast metrocable parks Comuna 1, La Popular | Medell.n, Colombia 144 Barrio Las Independencias escalators and walkways | Medellin, Colombia 152 Funicular in Dona Marta | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 160 Complexo do Alem.o | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 168 Ecotecnia Urbana Miravalle | Mexico City, Mexico PAVEMENT, PATHS AND THE SPACE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS 176 Pavement, paths and stairs Cerro Santo Doming and Cerro Toro | Valpara.so, Chile 184 Cerro Santa Ana urban rehabilitation | Guayaquil, Ecuador 192 Fernando Botero Library | Medellin, Colombia 200 Moravia Cultural Center | Medellin, Colombia 208 Espa.o Crian.a and community programs | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 216 Plaza in Villa Tranquila | Buenos Aires, Argentina ACTIVITY 224 Casa Kolacho Comuna 13 | Medellin, Colombia 232 AfroReggae Cultural Center | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 240 Alto Per. | Lima, Peru 248 El Calvario Puertas Abiertas | Caracas, Venezuela

Book Urbicide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fernando Carrión Mena
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-03-23
  • ISBN : 3031253043
  • Pages : 930 pages

Download or read book Urbicide written by Fernando Carrión Mena and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of ​​Latin America, Europe and the United States, to initiate a comparative debate of the different dynamics in which Urbicidio expresses itself. The field or focal point of analysis that this publication approaches is the city, but under a new critical perspective of inverse methodology to that has been traditional used. It is about understanding the structural causes of self-destruction to finally thinking better and then going from pessimism to optimism. It is a deep look at the city from an unconventional entrance, because it is about knowing and analyzing what the city loses by the action deployed by own urbanites, both in the field of its production and in the field of its consumption. This suppose that the city does not have an ascending linear sequential evolution in its development but neither in each of its parts in the improvement process, showing the face that commonly not seen but others live. The category used for this purpose is that of Urbicidio or the death of the city, which contributes theoretically and methodologically to the knowledge of the city, as well as to the design of urban policies that neutralize it. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the book has an inclusive view of the authors. For this reason, gender parity, territorial representation and the presence of age groups have been sought.

Book Mision en el camino

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles E. Van Engen
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2019-02-28
  • ISBN : 1532658435
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Mision en el camino written by Charles E. Van Engen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durante los pasados cincuenta años, el énfasis sobre la práctica y estrategia de la obra misionera ha menoscabado el valor de la importancia de la teología de la misión. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas teólogos y misiólogos de todas las tradiciones cristianas han comenzado a reexaminar y repensar las suposiciones teológicas que fundamentan la obra misionera. En Misión en el Camino Charles Van Engen articula con claridad muchos de los conceptos fundamentales de la teología de la misión. Charles Van Engen, en este volumen, aborda numerosos temas misiológicos centrales. Examina la cuestión de construir teologías en contextos específicos, tales como en la ciudad. También nos muestra tanto los beneficios como las preocupaciones que experimentamos cuando alentamos a los creyentes a teologizar dentro de su propio entorno, cuando tomamos con seriedad el sacerdocio de todos los creyentes. Hace un delineamiento de los debates actuales sobre asuntos levantados por el pluralismo religioso, y batalla con la manera en que podemos proclamar el carácter único de Cristo, sin ser arrogantes y triunfalistas. Echa una mirada al impacto que la modernidad y la posmodernidad están teniendo sobre el movimiento misionero en Occidente, y hace un llamado a la renovación de nuestro compromiso como seguidores de Jesucristo en los duros ambientes culturales de nuestros días. Explora los roles cambiantes de misioneros y ministros en iglesias jóvenes, y levanta preguntas difíciles relacionadas con la unidad de la iglesia en medio de su proliferación, diversidad y fragmentación de carácter global. Son de excepcional valor, la manera en que Van Engen traza la historia de la discusión reciente sobre cada uno de estos asuntos y la riqueza de fuentes bibliográficas que nos presenta para más estudio. Igualmente, importantes son las repuestas que él ofrece a estas cuestiones, respuestas que nos ayudan a movernos más allá de los caminos sin salida que tanto caracterizan nuestro pensamiento actual. (Tomado del Prólogo escrito por Pablo Hiebert.)

Book Mejora Tu Espanol

Download or read book Mejora Tu Espanol written by De LA Portilla and published by Prentice Hall Ptr. This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Open City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Almudena Ribot
  • Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN : 1638409099
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Open City written by Almudena Ribot and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication inquires into the future of post-industrial cities framing and speculating on different industrial contexts: archipelagos (Eibar), fabrics (Cobo Calleja), assemblies (Detroit). Currently 55% of the world’s population lives in cities, predictably reaching 70% in 2050. Cities are organisms in continuous transformation: growth, change, but also shrinking or collapse. Open City explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the future of the post-industrial city, where industrial archipelagoes (S), frames (XL) and obsolete or deprogrammed singularities (M/L) represent critical contexts but also opportunities for a new Open City. Open Systems have been the research focus of CoLab since 2013. This book collects some relevant and engagingly contemporary insights. It also includes new unpublished interviews and articles with international participants leading players in this field. CoLaboratorio is a research, prototyping and production space. From the contemporary architecture project CoLab works around industrialization, flexible systems, project participation and collaborative dynamics. With Contributions of: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Marta Catalán, Klaske Havik & Hans Teerds, Juan Herreros, Andrés Jaque, Momoyo Kaijima, María Langarita & Víctor Navarro, Philipp Oswalt, Cedric Price, Andrés de las Alas & Alberto López, Colectivo Berreibar, Almudena Ribot, Enrique Espinosa, Diego García-Setién, Begoña de Abajo, Gaizka Altuna. Bilingual edition in English & Spanish

Book Esperanza en tiempos de oscuridad

Download or read book Esperanza en tiempos de oscuridad written by Randy Jurado Ertll and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randy Jurado Ertll, un salvadore-o americano, creci- en el Sur Centro de Los _ngeles a fines de los a-os 1970 y durante los 80, y tambiZn vivi- en El Salvador cuando era un ni-o, as' como en Rochester, Minnesota, Washington, D.C., y en Alexandria, Virginia. En cada una de estas ciudades presenci- la dinOmica y retos de la comunidad Latina. Porque ha vivido y trascendido las luchas, es capaz de captar una imagen realista y compasiva de la comunidad Latina a travZs de esta experiencia convincente narrada en este poderoso libro.

Book Just One Planet

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  • Author : Douglas Mark Smith
  • Publisher : Soluciones Practicas
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789972471377
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Just One Planet written by Douglas Mark Smith and published by Soluciones Practicas. This book was released on 2006 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on analysis of the evidence for climate change and the vulnerability of poor people, develops a framework for action and examines the link between consumer and political choices in the North, and impacts in the South on the most vulnerable people on the planet.

Book La revoluci  n silenciosa

Download or read book La revoluci n silenciosa written by Cabezas González-Garzón, Dani and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dos siglos después de su invención, a cargo del alemán Karl Von Drais, la bicicleta vuelve a reclamar su espacio en las calles. No solo como una solución para el asfixiant tráfico de las grandes urbes, sinocomo una herramienta fundamental en la lucha contra el cambio climático. Un medio de transporte limpio y eficiente que contribue de manera decisiva a mejorar la salud y el bolsillo de los ciudadanos, así como a crear espacios de convivencia más silenciosos, humanos y amables.

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  • Publisher : IICA
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  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: