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Book Historia contempor  nea de Am  rica

Download or read book Historia contempor nea de Am rica written by Antoni Marimon i Riutort and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En aquest llibre s'ha defugit la temptació de convertir la història contemporània d'Amèrica en un mosaic inconnex de petites històries nacionals de cada país, i s'han abordat, per contra, i de forma innovadora, els grans problemes històrics continentals des de finals del segle XVIII fins a l'actualitat més estricta.

Book Cities After Crisis

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  • Author : Carlos Garcia Vazquez
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-09-30
  • ISBN : 1000440494
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Cities After Crisis written by Carlos Garcia Vazquez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de-growth and the re-wilding of cities, from a homogenizing globalism to a new localism that values what is distinctive and nearby, from the privatization of the public realm to the commoning and self-governance of urban resources, and from top-down to bottom-up processes based on the engagement and empowerment of communities. Through examples from cities around the world and a detailed look at the London neighbourhood of Dalston, the book shows designers and planners how to incorporate residents into the decision-making process, design inclusive public spaces that can be permanently reconfigured, reimagine obsolete spaces to accommodate radically contemporary uses, and build gardens designed and maintained by the community, among other projects.

Book Teor  a de las condiciones y los servicios generales de la producci  n

Download or read book Teor a de las condiciones y los servicios generales de la producci n written by Gustavo Garza and published by El Colegio de Mexico AC. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La economía política de la urbanización asume que las condiciones generales de la producción constituyen el determinante histórico fundamental de la concentración espacial del capital. En este libro, primero de una trilogía sobre el tema, se extiende esa categoría proponiendo la existencia del binomio condiciones y servicios generales de la producción, como un concepto más adecuado para comprender las aglomeraciones metropolitanas contemporáneas. En la primera parte de la obra se analiza la evolución de dicha categoría dentro de la teoría del capital, su desarrollo histórico mundial como andamiaje infraestructural, así como su definición, tipología y características. En la segunda parte se inicia un estudio empírico sobre el vínculo de la infraestructura con la competitividad urbana y, principalmente, la cuestión de su financiamiento en el caso de la Ciudad de México.

Book The Integration of Contemporary Architecture in Heritage Sites

Download or read book The Integration of Contemporary Architecture in Heritage Sites written by Pablo Vázquez Piombo and published by ITESO. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the constant transformation and destruction of cultural heritage buildings in our cities and the effort to preserve what has survived, this book, proposes a methodology that helps the professional integrate contemporary architecture in cultural heritage contexts. Find the print edition at https://publicaciones.iteso.mx/ (ITESO), (Universidad ITESO).

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 Contemporary Mexico

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  • Author : James W. Wilkie
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-02-25
  • ISBN : 0520326040
  • Pages : 876 pages

Download or read book Contemporary Mexico written by James W. Wilkie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Book Claiming the City and Contesting the State

Download or read book Claiming the City and Contesting the State written by Inbal Ofer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) and Spain's transition to democracy (1975-1982). Specifically, the book explores the production and management of urban space as one form of political and social repression under the dictatorship, and the threat posed to the official urban planning regimes by the phenomenon of mass squatting (chabolismo). The growing body of recent literature that analyzes the role of neighborhood associations within Spain's transition to democracy, points to the importance and radicalism of associations that formed within squatters' settlements such as Orcasitas in Madrid, Otxarkoaga in Bilbao or Somorrostro and el Camp de la Bota in Barcelona. However, relatively little is known about the formation of community life in these neighborhoods during the 1950s, and about the ways in which the struggle to control and fashion urban space prior to Spain's transition to democracy generated specific notions of democratic citizenship amongst populations lacking in prior coherent ideological commitment.

Book Barcelona

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  • Author : Manuel Gausa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book Barcelona written by Manuel Gausa and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide brings together the most important and interesting examples of modern and contemporary architecture in Barcelona over the period 1860-2007. It covers the emergence of Modernisme and Noucentisme, creative periods for which Barcelona is known the world over: the emblematic German Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe (1929), rationalist works conceived from the 40s and 50s, large housing projects of the 70s, the Olympic architecture of the late 80s, post-Olympic architecture, examples of the ongoing urban redefinition from the 90s, and the iconic architecture of the 21st century. Each entry has a brief description that includes planning and completion dates, a summary explanatory description, and subsequent restoration and alterations with a graphic coding system.

Book Opinar Con Sentido

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  • Author : Jes S. S. Nchez-Ajofr N. Reverte
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2012-07
  • ISBN : 1463318065
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Opinar Con Sentido written by Jes S. S. Nchez-Ajofr N. Reverte and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La navegación por la vida, puede convertir a las personas en instruidos marineros. Saber dar soluciones en los momentos de mayor riesgo para el naufragio, es la prueba que te convierte en el hábil capitán de tu propio barco. Si toda esta aventura, queda argumentada y bien documentada, no hay duda que, sobrevivirá al inevitable, y definitivo naufragio por nuestra vida, como garantía para próximos navegadores. Mis cartas fueron llegando a importantes archivos de vanguardia: los periódicos aceptaron la información, y fueron testigos de escarpados viajes por mi mente. Cientos de artículos dirigidos a la sección de "cartas al director" fueron viendo la luz por toda la geografía nacional. Así, periódicos como El País, La Vanguardia, La Verdad, Diario de León, Diario La Nueva España de Oviedo, La Voz de Galicia, Diario de Mallorca, Diario Bahía de Cádiz, Diario Palentino, Diario de Burgos, El Norte de Castilla, Heraldo de Aragón (Zaragoza), El Correo Español-El Pueblo Vasco, Diario Montañés de Santander, Diario Sur (Málaga, Marbella y Melilla). De esta manera, se convirtieron en 'notarios' de mis aventuras. La revista XL Semanal de gran tirada nacional, me convirtió en marinero de alto rango al haberme premiado en el apartado de carta de la semana, la enviada con el título: El Reloj de mi abuelo (dedicada con todo el cariño, a la muerte de mi padre) con un comentario de Lorenzo Silva (abogado y escritor); además de haberme publicado otras tantas de opinión. Este libro, se convierte por tanto, en un torrente variado, ante sentimientos e ideas de la vida. El Autor http: //jsreverte.com/

Book Class  Culture and Conflict in Barcelona  1898 1937

Download or read book Class Culture and Conflict in Barcelona 1898 1937 written by Chris Ealham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.

Book Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico

Download or read book Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico written by Edward R. Burian and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and architectural historians cover a range of topics from broad-based critical commentaries to discussions of individual architects and buildings. Among the latter are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Relatively little has been published in English regarding this era in Mexican architecture. Thus, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico will play a groundbreaking role in making the underlying assumptions, ideological and political constructs, and specific architect's agendas known to a wide audience in the humanities. Likewise, it should inspire greater appreciation for this undervalued body of works as an important contribution to the modern movement.

Book Sociology in Spain

Download or read book Sociology in Spain written by Salvador Giner and published by Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A critical report about the origins, present state and future perspectives of sociology in Spain."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Theories of History

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  • Author : Michael J. Kelly
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-05-17
  • ISBN : 1474271316
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Theories of History written by Michael J. Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. In a unique approach to historical representations, the central question of this book is 'what is history?' By describing 'history' through its supplementary function to the field of history, rather than the ground of a study, this collection considers new insights into historical thinking and historiography across the humanities. It fosters engagement from around the disciplines in historical thinking and, from that, invites historians and philosophers of history to see clearly the impact of their work outside of their own specific fields, and encourages deep reflection on the role of historical production in society. As such, Theories of History opens up for the first time a truly cross-disciplinary dialogue on history and is a unique intervention in the study of historical representation. Essays in this volume discuss music history, linguistics, theater studies, paintings, film, archaeology and more. This book is essential reading for those interested in the practice and theories of history, philosophy, and the humanities more broadly. Readers of this volume are not only witness to, but also part of the creation of, radical new discourses in and ways of thinking about, doing and experiencing history.

Book Espa  a contempor  nea

Download or read book Espa a contempor nea written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ideas  revista de filosof  a moderna y contempor  nea  n  mero 3  oto  o 2016

Download or read book Ideas revista de filosof a moderna y contempor nea n mero 3 oto o 2016 written by Gilles Deleuze and published by Julián Ferreyra. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artículos de Deleuze, Rampazzo Bazzan, Shirani, Fazio y GIdeas, revista de filosofía moderna y contemporánea, número 3 (2016). Artículos de Deleuze ("Descripción de la mujer"), Rampazzo Bazzan ("El Hobbes de Fichte"), Shirani ("La lucha-entre de Deleuze y el pensamiento oriental"), Fazio ("Leibniz lector de la Ética: el papel de Spinoza en la reforma leibniziana de la noción de sustancia") y Gerszenson ("El amor pasional en la Etica de Spinoza"). El lanzamiento de la sección debates con la respuesta de Virginia Moratiel a la reseña de Gaudio a su libro sobre el Islam. Reseñas de: Deleuze y las fuentes de su filosofía II; La enseñanza filosófica. Cuestiones de política, género y educación ¿Un sujeto?; Art and Truth after Plato y Leçons sur la Philosophie de Gilles Deleuze. Un Système kantien. Une Politique anarcho-capitaliste.erszenson. El lanzamiento de la sección debates con la respuesta de Virginia Moratiel a la reseña de Gaudio a su libro sobre el Islam. Y reseñas de: Deleuze y las fuentes de su filosofía II; La enseñanza filosófica. Cuestiones de política, género y educación ¿Un sujeto?; Art and Truth after Plato y Leçons sur la Philosophie de Gilles Deleuze. Un Système kantien. Une Politique anarcho-capitaliste.

Book Crosses of Memory and Oblivion

Download or read book Crosses of Memory and Oblivion written by Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal with its past of mass killing, denial, and exclusion. Del Arco Blanco also pays attention to the way the Francoist authorities used monuments and memory for their political and ideological advantage and to control people, power as well as the political agenda. The book draws on extensive research to reconstruct both the specific history of monuments scattered throughout the country and their role within manipulative Francoist memory of the Spanish Civil War. In these ways, monuments helped shape the Francoist narrative and memory, but they also became part of the landscape of contemporary Spanish history. This book is an excellent resource for postgraduate students and professional researchers studying the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and the influence of monuments on the construction of national memory, culture, and society in Spain both at the time and through to the present day.

Book Anything But Novel

Download or read book Anything But Novel written by Jennie Irene Daniels and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes During neoliberal reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, murder, repression, and exile had reduced the number of intellectuals and Leftists, and many succumbed to or were coopted by market forces and ideologies. The opposition to the economic violence of neoliberal projects lacked a united front, and feasible alternatives to the contemporary order no longer seemed to exist. In this context, some Latin American literary intellectuals penned post-utopian historical novels as a means to reconstruct memory of significant moments in national history. Through the distortion and superimposition of distinct genres within the narratives, authors of post-utopian historical novels incorporated literary, cultural, and political traditions to expose contemporary challenges that were rooted in unresolved past conflicts. In Anything but Novel, Jennie Irene Daniels closely examines four post-utopian novels--César Aira's Ema, la cautiva, Rubem Fonseca's O Selvagem da Ópera, José Miguel Varas's El correo de Bagdad, and Santiago Páez's Crónicas del Breve Reino--to make their contributions more accessible and to synthesize and highlight the literary and social interventions they make. Although the countries the novels focus on (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador) differ widely in politics, regime changes, historical precedents, geography, and demographics, the development of a shared subgenre among the literary elite suggests a common experience and interpretation of contemporary events across Latin America. These novels complement one another, extending shared themes and critiques. Daniels argues the novels demonstrate that alternatives exist to neoliberalism even in times when it appears there are none. Another contribution of these novels is their repositioning of the Latin American literary intellectuals who have advocated for the marginalized in their societies. Their work has opened new avenues and developed previous lines of research in feminist, queer, and ethnic studies and for nonwhite, nonmale writers.