Breve historia del urbanismo

Breve historia del urbanismo
Author: Fernando Chueca Goitia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9788420653389

Esta " Breve historia del urbanismo " esboza el proceso que, a partir de las civilizaciones del Valle del Nilo y Mesopotamia, ha conducido hasta la moderna vida urbana. La descripción de los tipos fundamentales de ciudades antigua, islámica, medieval, renacentista, barroca, industrial pone de manifiesto las constantes y las diferencias de los diversos modelos, articulados en una secuencia histórica que permite anticipar con clarividencia muchos de los retos con que se enfrentan las urbes actuales. Fernando Chueca Goitia presta especial atención a los problemas que plantea al urbanismo contemporáneo el crecimiento desmesurado e irracional de las grandes metrópolis, con sus connotaciones de deshumanización y desarraigo.

Frontiers in Higher Education

Frontiers in Higher Education
Author: Linda W. Cooke
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781600211133

Higher education is a complex package of issues which never seems to leave the limelight. The primary wedge issues are tuition cost, access, accountability, financial aid, government funding, sports and their place within higher education, academic results, societal gains as a whole in terms of international competition, and continuing education. This new book examines current issues with special attention to the Higher Education Act and its reauthorisation and the aspects of higher education related to it.

The Power of Cities

The Power of Cities
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004399690

The Power of Cities is an interdisciplinary, cultural-comparative volume on Iberian urban studies. It is the first attempt to bring together recent research on the transformation of Iberian cities from Late Antiquity to the 18th century combining archaeological and historical sources.

Urbanismo Regenerativo

Urbanismo Regenerativo
Author: Landlab
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2024-01-23
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1638401098

We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather generate new ones that ensure compatibility between economic and social prosperity and nature. Santander, Hábitat Futuro (Santander, Future Habitat) is the city model created from this methodology, a proposal for the transformation of this city for the year 2055. It is an open model based on innovation and citizen participation that prepares and adapts the territory for the different scenarios to come. Santander, Habitat Futuro is a guide that directs the commitment of the different social, economic and political agents towards a common goal: to achieve a circular, sustainable, resilient, vertebrate, prosperous, vital and inclusive city. A model that, due to its innovative nature, can serve as an example to other intermediate cities around the world.

Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900

Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900
Author: Patrick O'Flanagan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317077768

Charting the evolution of the port cities of Atlantic Spain and Portugal over four centuries, this book examines the often dynamic interaction between the large privileged ports of Lisbon, Seville and Cadiz (the Metropoles) and the smaller ports of, among others, Oporto, Corunna and Santander (the Second Tier). The book particularly focuses on the implications of state-sponsored commercial policies for the main ports of Atlantic Iberia during the monopoly period extending from 1503 to c.1778, and briefly considers the implications of the suppression of monopoly for these centres over the remainder of the nineteenth century. Patrick O'Flanagan employs a wealth of source material to provide a multi-faceted survey of the growth of these port cities, moving deftly from local concerns to regional developments and global relationships. Beyond Spain and Portugal, the book also considers the important role played by the Atlantic archipelagoes of the Canaries, the Azores and Madeira. This formidable study is an essential addition to the library of those studying Atlantic Iberia, historical geography, and transatlantic economic relationships of this period.

The Journey of Utopia

The Journey of Utopia
Author: Pablo Campos Calvo-Sotelo
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781594545153

In 1927, a group of advisors of King Alfonso XIII of Spain set off a journey to the United States. Their aim was to study the American University as a model for the design of the new University City in Madrid. Using the reconstruction of this cultural event as a guiding thread metaphor, the purpose of the Research Project is to study the roots and historical transformations that the University Space has experimented since its origins, under the impulse of Utopia, making special emphasis in its relation to the City. It will focus on the evolution of essential architectural models, beginning from its medieval germ in Europe: the exodus of the 'seed' of its embodied soul (the quadrangle) to the New World, the birth and diversification of the new model (campus) and, finally, in the early twentieth century, the 'return trip' to Europe of the modern idea, and the prolific heritage that it has generated in the contemporary University since then, from the point of view of the cultural connection between the Unites States and Europe.

Keepers of the City

Keepers of the City
Author: Marvin Lunenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521329302

Through its study of the corregidores, this book offers a panoramic view of Castile during the late medieval and Renaissance eras.