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1938 El sueño de una capital moderna
"La conmemoración del IV Centenario de la fundación de Bogotá, celebrada el 6 de agosto de 1938, se convirtió en el momento de convergencia de diversos procesos históricos que transformaron sustancialmente la ciudad y señalaron el derrotero de su tránsito en las décadas siguientes. En la opinión pública era frecuente encontrar el argumento de que la nación se merecía que la capital presentara un escenario urbano acorde con la condición de ciudad moderna." Fabio Zambrano Pantoja.
Historia de Bogotá
A beautiful slipcase holds three volumes on the history of Bogota, making this resource an indispensable and fascinating documentary of Colombia’s capital. The first two volumes that cover the conquest, colonialism, and the 19th century have been updated with fresh designs, while a completely new third volume covers the 20th century and includes the history of Bogota’s expansion, the development of services and institutions, and the achievements and failures of more recent times. This lovely collection constitutes a legacy of obligatory reading for both its current and future inhabitants. Una caja bonita contiene tres volúmenes de la historia de Bogotá, la capital de Colombia. Este recurso es un documento imprescindible y fascinante. Los primeros dos volúmenes cubren la conquista, el colonialismo, y el siglo 19 y han sido actualizados con diseños nuevos. La tercera edición completamente nueva cubre el siglo 20 y incluye la historia de la expansión de la ciudad, la evolución de sus servicios e instituciones, y sus haberes y sus fallas. Esta linda colección constituye una legado de lectura obligatoria para sus habitantes actuales y futuros.
Modelos de ordenamiento territorial
El poblamiento de Colombia, experiencia urbana que abarca cinco siglos, se distancia de los procesos llevados a cabo en América Latina en razón de que no compartimos con otros países como Brasil y Argentina, la tendencia hacia la macrocefalia urbana, es decir, la concentración poblacional y productiva en una gran ciudad. Al observar detenidamente el horizonte urbano colombiano encontramos que, si bien existe una unidad representada en el Estado, sus símbolos y sus ritos nacionales, es innegable la presencia de una variada red de ciudades habitadas por sociedades pluriétnicas. Este texto ofrece al lector una narración acerca de cómo en la organización de la red urbana colombiana, se ...
Chronicle of a Failure Foretold
Chronicle of a Failure Foretold charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana's efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war.
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006–2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation’s violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system Fighting Monsters in the Abyss offers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2006–2010) to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America’s most important nations. Continuing work from his prior books about earlier Colombian presidents and yet written as a stand-alone study, Colombia expert Harvey F. Kline illuminates the surprising successes and setb...
Marijuana Boom
Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?
Learning from Bogotá
Once known as a “drug capital” and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed “the miracle of Bogotá.” Beginning in the late 1980s, the city emerged from a long period of political and social instability to become an unexpected model of urban development through the redesign and revitalization of the public realm—parks, transportation, and derelict spaces—under the leadership of two “public space mayors,” Antanas Mockus and Enrique Peñalosa (the latter reelected in 2015). In Learning from Bogotá, Rachel Berney analyzes how these mayors worked to reconfigure the troubled city into a pedagogical ...
