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Teorías e historia de la ciudad contemporánea
La ciudad contemporánea es una criatura incierta. Su condición de amalgama de variables sociales y económicas, culturales y políticas, temporales y espaciales, la convierte en un hojaldre múltiple difícil de aprehender. Infinidad de teorías e historias llevan décadas intentándolo, de lo que ha derivado un corpus doctrinario igualmente vasto y complejo. El objetivo de este libro es descifrar dicho corpus. Como la ciudad no puede abarcarse desde una única área de conocimiento, Carlos García Vázquez intenta detectar sus regularidades, relacionarlas entre sí y trazar trayectorias que dibujen una topografía legible. De esta forma, el libro revisa tres paradigmas de pensamiento en torno a la ciudad que han afectado a tres disciplinas: la ciudad de los sociólogos, la ciudad de los historiadores y la ciudad de los arquitectos. Tres miradas que, en cierto modo, vendrían a ser la ciudad del presente, la ciudad del pasado y la ciudad del futuro.
Antípolis
La expresión Cinturón del Sol (Sunbelt) designa la franja de Estados Unidos comprendida entre el paralelo 37 y la frontera con México. En ella se ubican los catorce estados y las decenas de ciudades que protagonizan este libro: Los Ángeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, etc. Sin embargo, el Cinturón del Sol es algo más que un término geográfico: es un estilo de vida; un cóctel compuesto de conservadurismo político, ultraliberalismo económico, modos de vida suburbanos, alta movilidad, buen clima y ocio. En las dos últimas décadas numerosos teóricos han vuelto su mirada hacia esta zona, convencidos de que allí se está forjando el futuro de la ciudad estadounidense. Algunos, incluso, han ido más allá y aventuran ?la cuarta revolución urbana?, que daría paso a una nueva fase de la historia de la ciudad. *Las fotografías de Alex S. MacLean no están disponibles en la edición digital.
Cities After Crisis
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.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
Social Sciences
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Housing the Future
Housing The Future: Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow offers three perspectives on the problems of housing today with an eye on tomorrow. It brings together world-leading practising architects with academics from seven countries and teams of international students. World leaders in the field of residential design such as UN Habitat Award winner Avi Friedman present built projects whose design criteria and aims they lay out in text. Academics from the UK, the USA, Spain, Germany and elsewhere follow these project descriptions with extended essays from a more theoretical perspective but remain focused on the realities of practice. Finally, ideas on current housing problems from the next generation of designers are brought together in student projects from Europe and North America. With an introduction by Dr Graham Cairns, this book highlights the practice of residential design internationally at a time when affordable housing provision is seen as a critical issue by designers, planners and policy makers alike.
Advanced Control and Optimization Paradigms for Wind Energy Systems
This book presents advanced studies on the conversion efficiency, mechanical reliability, and the quality of power related to wind energy systems. The main concern regarding such systems is reconciling the highly intermittent nature of the primary source (wind speed) with the demand for high-quality electrical energy and system stability. This means that wind energy conversion within the standard parameters imposed by the energy market and power industry is unachievable without optimization and control. The book discusses the rapid growth of control and optimization paradigms and applies them to wind energy systems: new controllers, new computational approaches, new applications, new algorithms, and new obstacles.
Designing Disorder
Rethinking the open city Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed? Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking work The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. The need for the Open City, the alternative, is now more urgent that ever. In this provocative essay, Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the life of our cities. What the authors call 'infrastructures for disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide, remain open to change rather than rapidly stagnate. Designing Disorder is a radical and transformative manifesto for the future of twenty-first-century cities.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1993
My Father’s Shoes is, at its core, an anthology of short stories. The book is allegoric and the shoes are metaphoric. Unlike most anthologies, however, these stories are an amalgam of themselves. They integrate and coalesce. There is a rhythm and a cadence both in substance and in form. This book was initially written as a gift to my father. I wanted to share certain memories with him that were meaningful and lasting. I wanted him to know, from my perspective, just how important he was in my life. He never really understood the profound impact that he had on the lives of other people –especially his family. Because of that humility, or perhaps in honor of it, I wanted to him know that he...
