Download or read book Spatial Theories for the Americas written by Fernando Luiz Lara and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To study the built environment of the Americas is to wrestle with an inherent contradiction. While the disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge and the vernacular used to describe these disciplines comes from another, very different, continent. With this book, Fernando Luiz Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and mostly architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. The first part of Spatial Theories for the Americas offers a critique of Eurocentrism in the discipline of architecture, problematizing its theoretical foundation in relation to the inseparability of modernization and colonization. The second part makes explicit the insufficiencies of a hegemonic Western tradition at the core of spatial theories by discussing a long list of authors who have thought about the Americas. To overcome centuries of Eurocentrism, Lara concludes, will require a tremendous effort, but, nonetheless, we have the responsibility of looking at the built environment of the Americas through our own lenses. Spatial Theories for the Americas proposes a fundamental step in that direction.

Download or read book Llave del Nuevo Mundo written by José Martín Félix de Arrate and published by Linkgua. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José Martín Félix de Arrate Acosta; nació en la Habana en 1701, fue historiador y político. Vinculado por lazos de consanguinidad a las más prestigiosas familias de la oligarquía habanera de la etapa. Se le considera como el primer historiador de Cuba por muchos ilustrados cubanos. Fue Regidor perpetuo del ayuntamiento de la Habana. Es el autor de Llave del Nuevo Mundo que constituye una muestra acabada de criollismo y modernidad, de la cual no se ha encontrado el manuscrito original y que refleja el modo de percibir Cuba, sus poblaciones y recursos sintetizando casi dos siglos de colonización española. Llave del Nuevo Mundo es una descripción completa de la sociedad cubana del siglo XVIII. La obra abarca cinco puntos: geografía y naturaleza, economía, unciones de las autoridades y magistraturas, cronología civil y eclesiástica, y una crónica cultural. «Por ser resguardo y conservación de los dilatados dominios en la vasta jurisdicción de la América [decidiose...] distinguir y conceder a La Habana, llamándola Llave del Nuevo Mundo y Antemural de las Indias Occidentales.» José Martín Félix de Arrate

Download or read book Nuevos mundos written by Ana Roca and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the communication and literacy skills of heritage Spanish speakers with exercises that are designed to improve oral and written proficiency in the language. Nuevos mundos uses the cultures and voices of the major Hispanic groups in the United States, as well as those of Latin America and Spain, to familiarize students with a variety of issues and topics, which are sometimes controversial and always thought-provoking.

Download or read book Las Tonterias de Mi Vida written by Jose Luis N. Mendez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En la antigüedad existieron mundos distintos a los que conocemos, pero en uno en especial, Anthemia, había tres seres puros los cuales comenzaron a perfeccionarse provocando que poco a poco esa perfección fuera su destrucción, dándose rivalidades entre ellos provocando la destrucción de su mundo. Doce ángeles caídos al traicionar su ciudad comenzaron a tratar de solucionar el caos provocado, llegando a la tierra en búsqueda de un nuevo comienzo. Mientras uno de los hermanos logra salvar la mayor parte de todos los tesoros de la ciudad mandándolos al planeta tierra, dándose cuenta de la existencia de varios mundos y dimensiones. Al pasar el tiempo, comenzaron a mezclarse con los humanos y a intervenir en la vida de estos, comenzaron a perder sus dones y la pureza que tenían, las guerras entre los seres por gobernar a los humanos iniciaba. El conocimiento entre el bien y el mal empezaba...

Download or read book Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications written by Sajid Anwar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes high-quality papers presented at 16th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2022), held in Lisbon, Portugal during October 20–22, 2022. The book presents original research work of academics and industry professionals to exchange their knowledge of the state-of-the-art research and development in information technology and applications. The topics covered in the book are cloud computing, business process engineering, machine learning, evolutionary computing, big data analytics, Internet of things and cyber-physical systems, information and knowledge management, computer vision and image processing, computer graphics and games programming, mobile computing, ontology engineering, software and systems modeling, human–computer interaction, online learning / e-learning, computer networks, and web engineering.

Download or read book Ciudad Trujillo the Oldest City in the New World written by Joaquín Marino Incháustegui and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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:

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Download or read book Ciudad en el mundo romano written by and published by Comite Organitzador del XIV C.I.A.C.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Variedades Ling sticas Y Lenguas En Contacto En El Mundo De Habla Hispana written by NILSA LASSO - VON LANG and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-04-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El presente volumen ofrece una revisin general de la situacin del espaol como lengua en contacto con otras lenguas en diversos pases del mundo hispano. Cada seccin del libro cubre un rea o pas dentro de Espaa, Latinoamrica y el Caribe, donde el espaol convive con otras lenguas desde hace siglos.

Download or read book Urban Images of the Hispanic World 1493 1793 written by Richard L. Kagan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture as well as the different meanings that artists and cartographers invested in their depiction of New and Old Wold cities and towns. Kagan maintains that cities are both built human structures and human communities, and that representations of the urban form reflect both points of view. He discusses the peculiar character of Spain's empire of towns; the history and development of the cityscape as an independent artistic genre, both in Europe and the Americas; the interaction between European and native mapping traditions; differences between European maps of urban America and those produced by local residents, whether native or creole; and the urban iconography of four different New World towns. Lavishly illustrated with a variety of maps, pictures, and plans, many reproduced here for the first time, this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to general readers and to specialists in art history, cartography, history, urbanism, and related fields.

Download or read book El cielo y el infierno written by Allan Kardec and published by EDICEI of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Umayyad Legacies written by Antoine Borrut and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus – Islamic Spain – from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first to bring together studies of this far-flung family and treat it not as two unrelated caliphates but as a single enterprise. Yet for all that historians have made note of Umayyad accomplishments in the Near East and al-Andalus, Umayyad legacies – what later generations made of these caliphs and their achievements – are poorly understood. Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, this book highlights Umayyad achievements and the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.

Download or read book ANAMNESIS written by Juan Castano and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANAMNESIS (In ancient Greek – Recollection, reminiscence; loss of forgetfulness), Is the recollection of memories, lost in the journey or fall, from the Sanctuary into the human world. The fallen or children of the Sanctuary, are the creative minds, the divine souls, gods among human beings and the light of life. They live in the human society, just like everyone else, but all along, the feel something is missing, they perceive that there is something else; they try to find the inexplicable to the reason and to the senses; the truth. Rediscovering a whole new world, behind unopened doors, between unexplored parallels; where the poetical verses of art dominates, where philosophy is a life style and where all the immortal souls belongs to, the eternal place; the Sanctuary. Here are the verses of Love & Death, experienced by the divine immortal souls, fighting their own demons, in a world of dark mortal souls, a world of hate and chaos, destruction and confusion.

Download or read book A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America written by William R. Fowler and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this milestone work, William Fowler uses archaeology, history, and social theory to show that the establishment of cities was essential to Spanish colonialism. Fowler draws upon decades of archaeological research on the landscape, built environment, and architecture of Ciudad Vieja, a sixteenth-century site located in present-day El Salvador and the best-preserved Spanish colonial city in Latin America. Fowler compares Ciudad Vieja to other urban sites in the region and to the tradition of urbanism in early modern Spain to determine how the Spanish grid-plan layout was modified and implemented in the Americas. Using extensive archival material, Fowler describes how this layout reflected and perpetuated power structures that benefited the Spanish although the city’s Indigenous population was greater in number. Fowler analyzes recorded interactions between colonists, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved Africans to demonstrate the ways the cityscape affected the relationships among individuals and cultural groups. Offering an unparalleled view into a critical moment in Latin American history, this book offers new ways of looking at urbanism and colonialism as intertwined forces in the emergence of the early modern world.

Download or read book La Torre written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pedagog as de lo social written by Úcar Martínez, Xavier and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: