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Hyperborder
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
Arredondo
In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served in Napoleon’s army, pirates, and various American Indian groups, all attempting to wrest control of the region. Often resorting to violence to deal with the provinces’ problems, Arredondo was for ten years the most powerful official in northeastern New Spain. Folsom’s lively account shows ...
The Equitably Resilient City
Twelve global planning and urban design interventions—and what they reveal about equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change. Hillside favelas in South America imperiled by landslides. Flood-threatened mobile home parks on the American Gulf Coast. Canal-side settlements facing eviction in megacities in Southeast Asia. Too often the places most vulnerable to climate change are the ones that are home to people with the fewest economic and political resources. And while some leaders are starting to take action to reduce climate risks, many early adaptation schemes have actually made preexisting inequalities worse. In The Equitably Resilient City, Zachary Lamb and Lawrence V...
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Destinos turísticos: viejos problemas, ¿nuevas soluciones?
Esta publicación recoge una cincuentena de aportaciones referidas al turismo, al ocio y a los espacios de recreo. La potente capacidad transformadora relacionada con la actividad turística hace necesario debatir, no sólo sobre las características y problemáticas del desarrollo turístico de los últimos años, sino también sobre la virtualidad de las estrategias y actuaciones acometidas, con la finalidad de evaluar su impacto territorial, económico y social. Tomando los destinos turísticos como principal eje argumental, ponencias, experiencias de interés y comunicaciones, plantean las complejas relaciones e interdependencias entre turismo y territorio en los destinos urbanos, los espacios rurales/ interior y los litorales. Se trata, en suma, de una aportación, desde la Geografía, orientada a propiciar una reflexión serena sobre el papel del turismo en las dinámicas territoriales y sobre las características de los territorios turísticos que estamos construyendo en estos comienzos del siglo XXI.
