The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage

The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage
Author: Gabriela García
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2021-06-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000401308

The Future of the Past is a biennial conference generally carried out during the commemoration date of the incorporation of Santa Ana de Los Ríos de Cuenca Ecuador as a World Heritage Site (WHS). It initiated in 2014, organized by the City Preservation Management research project (CPM) of the University of Cuenca, to create a space for dialoguing among interested actors in the cultural heritage field. Since then, this space has served to exchange initiatives and to promote coordinated actions based on shared responsibility, in the local context. The third edition of this conference took place in the context of the 20th anniversary of being listed as WHS and a decade of CPM as the Southern host of the PRECOM3OS UNESCO Chair (Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites). For the very first time, and thanks to the collaboration with the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation of the University of Leuven (Belgium), the conference expanded its local scope. On this occasion, contributions reflected round a worldwide challenge in the cultural field: revealing the paths towards participatory governance of cultural heritage. Participatory governance is understood as institutional decision-making structures supported by shared responsibilities and rights among diverse actors.

Urban Dynamics in the Post-pandemic Period

Urban Dynamics in the Post-pandemic Period
Author: Enrique Navarro-Jurado
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031360176

This book offers a unique perspective on urban processes affecting tourist spaces and city centres. Economic, social and environmental uncertainty has been commonplace since March 2019, when mobility slowed down across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends that have been investigated in urban space for years. The incorporation of technologies, the expansion of tourism and the introduction of policies that in part want to advance sustainability are generating processes of reorganisation of territories that are driving changes. These changes will affect models of city, urbanism and society. This publication is directed to a wide spectrum of people interested in urban processes, tourism and social change in the context of the Post-Pandemic Covid-19. In particular, the book is aimed at researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, consultants, public administrations and the public interested in the recent challenges that are affecting developed and developing societies.

The North American Mosaic

The North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.

Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City

Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City
Author: Jesús Manuel González Pérez
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3038979465

The last two decades have been marked by intense and accelerated economic, political, and cultural processes that have affected urban spaces. These changes have occurred in different parts of cities (traditional centers, edges, peripheries) and at different levels of the urban system (large and medium-sized cities and in their respective areas of influence). Possibly the clearest expression of the spatial effects on cities can be perceived in their morphological transformations, their territorial dimensions, or in their social problems. Until 2008, urban–territorial processes were a reflection of the logic and inconsistencies of an expansive economic context and of a structural context that favored the development of cities through concurrent processes and actors. As a result, the built land and amount of urbanized and built surfaces increased, together with processes of the expansion and modernization of cities. Since 2008, the expansive economic cycle has ended, and there have been diverse negative consequences. Notably, the construction sector has come to an abrupt halt. Access to credit has also been reduced, and unemployment has increased. The economic recession has caused sociodemographic and socioeconomic issues exemplified by housing vulnerability, with dispossession, evictions, a shortage of social housing, and energy poverty.

LEV

LEV
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 990
Release: 1999
Genre: Catalogs, Publishers'
ISBN:

Infraestructuras y medio ambiente

Infraestructuras y medio ambiente
Author: Manuel Herce Vallejo
Publisher: Editorial UOC
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 849788082X

La Historia ha mostrado cómo las infraestructuras bien concebidas fueron capaces de adecuar armónicamente la capacidad de un territorio y los requerimientos del desarrollo de una sociedad. El alejamiento progresivo de esa premisa ha llevado, demasiado a menudo, a una ingeniería ?megalómana?, sin límites, que ha producido en amplios sectores de la sociedad una actitud de rechazo, transformada demasiado fácilmente en conservadurismo y negación del cambio. Pero Ingeniería y Ecología están llamadas a entenderse, porque ambas son ciencias del cambio y de la adaptación. Por eso, este libro responde a un intento de acercar los planeamientos con los que los ambientalistas y los ingenieros enfrentan en este momento la construcción del territorio y la consecuente alteración del medio ambiente. En el seno de la UOC, y con la finalidad de producir un Programa de postgrado especializado en Infraestructuras y Medioambiente, se creó ese debate entre especialistas de ambos mundos. De ese debate, y de los escritos que lo alimentaron, ha salido este libro. El libro se ha estructurado en dos tomos, complementarios pero independientes. El primero dedicado al modo en que la visión ambiental ha de encauzar las infraestructuras de organización territorial y urbana; el segundo a las infraestructuras cuya gestión tiene implicaciones más directamente ambientales o energéticas.

Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas

Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas
Author: Nora Clichevsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Land use, Urban
ISBN: 9781558441491

Vacant urban land--the product of land market activity, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents--is an important challenge for policy makers. Vacant lots on the urban fringe and in central and interstitial areas have affected growth patterns in Latin America. Contributors to this book analyze the problems and opportunities related to vacant urban land in five cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú; and San Salvador, El Salvador.

Cities of Tomorrow

Cities of Tomorrow
Author: Peter Hall
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1997-02-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780631199434

Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Author: Martin Knoll
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0822981599

Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.