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"A sweeping account of one of the cultural centers of Latin America, Specular City tells the history of Buenos Aires during the interregnum after Juan Peron's fall from power and before his restoration. During those two decades, the city experienced a rapid metamorphosis at the behest of its middle class citizens, who were eager to cast off the working-class imprint left by the Peronists. Laura Podalsky discusses the ways in which the proliferation of skyscrapers, the emergence of car culture, and the diffusion of an emerging revolution in the arts helped transform Buenos Aires, and, in so doing, redefine Argentine collective history. More than a cultural and material history of this city, this book also presents Buenos Aires as a crucible for urban life. Examining its structures through films, literatures, new magazines, advertising and architecture, Specular City reveals the prominent place of Buenos Aires in the massive changes that Latin America underwent for a new, modern definition of itself."--Book cover.
El urbanismo alternativo y hermenéutico, al que yo he dedicado igualmente años de esfuerzo, parte de presupuestos diferentes, ya que antepone las necesidades de las culturas y de sus lugares de desarrollo, es decir, las necesidades sociofísicas, a cualquier otra necesidad globalizadora y financiera que pretenda controlar todo sin dejar participar a sus usuarios, con un paternalismo neocolonial. Las consecuencias de esta decisión son amplias y profundas. Por una parte, los conocimientos de los habitantes del lugar y los de los expertos, financieras internacionales, poderes políticos regionales etc., no se consideran incompatibles sino inmersos en un complejo proceso hermenéutico y participativo que permite un escenario de diálogo interdisciplinar, intercultural e histórico-social. Más profundamente, esta decisión implica una refundación del urbanismo como disciplina capaz de involucrar el espacio como forma de conocimiento social y cultural, tanto en la educación como en las actuaciones profesionales que participan, finalmente, en la vida política de los grupos sociales que estén presentes.
El Derecho Ambiental Argentino, de carácter transversal e interdisciplinario, ha llevado adelante cambios en todas las áreas del derecho positivo.
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Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources—from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory—to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. A...
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