El Helicoide
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Downward Spiral
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Author : Celeste Olalquiaga
language : en
Publisher: UR (Urban Research)
Release Date : 2018
Downward Spiral written by Celeste Olalquiaga and has been published by UR (Urban Research) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architecture categories.
Hailed in the 1950s as a beacon of Latin America's modernist architecture, Venezuela's El Helicoide is a futuristic fantasy gone sour. At its conception, this drive-through shopping center embodied the narrative of progress fueled by soaring oil prices, consumerism and car culture. Yet a very different story unfolded on its spiral ramps. Caught up in the transition from military dictatorship to democratic rule, El Helicoide became a site of abandonment, encircled by slums, repurposed as an emergency shelter for flood victims, and finally taken over as the intelligence police headquarters and jail. Combining archival documents, critical analysis, literary excerpts and visual artworks, From Mall to Prison traces the turbulent history of this living ruin and shows the dystopic side of urban modernity.
El Helicoide
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Author : Dirk Bornhorst
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
El Helicoide written by Dirk Bornhorst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Acculturating The Shopping Centre
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Author : Janina Gosseye
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-16
Acculturating The Shopping Centre written by Janina Gosseye and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Architecture categories.
Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors (architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even amend the conditions that it encounters. Including more than 50 illustrations, this book considers the evolving architecture of shopping centres. It would be beneficial to academics and students across a number of areas such as architecture, urban design, cultural geography and sociology.
El Helicoide De La Investigaci N
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Author : Julio Aibar
language : es
Publisher: FLACSO Mexico
Release Date : 2013-09-25
El Helicoide De La Investigaci N written by Julio Aibar and has been published by FLACSO Mexico this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with Social Science categories.
Este libro no es un texto de metodología tradicional. Propone, en cambio, un abordaje diferente exponiendo al lector las decisiones y los caminos metodológicos emprendidos en investigaciones que originaron tesis de doctorado y de maestría en ciencias sociales. La obra condensa experiencias reflexionadas y narradas por los propios autores sobre el proceso que los llevó a culminar con éxito sus tesis. Es un libro que comparte con aire intimista, la lógica del vaivén en torno a los momentos de decisión y gozo que enfrentan todos aquellos comprometidos con la tarea de investigar.
Spectacular Modernity
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Author : Lisa Blackmore
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2017-07-22
Spectacular Modernity written by Lisa Blackmore and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-22 with History categories.
In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumerculture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.
Materializing Memory In Art And Popular Culture
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Author : Laszlo Muntean
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-08
Materializing Memory In Art And Popular Culture written by Laszlo Muntean and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Art categories.
Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting. Chapters 1, 4, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.
Populista
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Author : Will Grant
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Populista written by Will Grant and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Political Science categories.
'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is 'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.' FIDEL CASTRO For more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the politics of Latin America. His towering political influence still looms over the region today. The swing to the Left in Latin America, known as the 'Pink Tide', was the most important political movement in the Western Hemisphere in the 21st century. It involved some of the biggest, most colourful and most controversial characters in Latin America for decades, leaders who would leave an indelible mark on their nations and who were adored and reviled in equal measure. Parties became secondary to individual leaders and populism reigned from Venezuela to Brazil, from Central America to the Caribbean, financed by a spike in commodity prices and the oil-backed largesse of Venezuela's charismatic socialist president, Hugo Chávez. Yet within a decade and a half, it was all over. Today, this wave of populism has left the Americas in the hands of some of the most authoritarian and dangerous leaders since the military dictatorships of the 1970s.
Planning And Design For Future Informal Settlements
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Author : David Gouverneur
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-13
Planning And Design For Future Informal Settlements written by David Gouverneur and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with Architecture categories.
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution of future informal cities, planners must consider the same issues that are paramount in formal urban developments, such as provision of: balanced land uses energy efficiency and mobility water management and food sufficiency governance and community participation productivity and competitiveness identity and sense of place Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements makes a call for responsible action to address the urban challenges of the developing world, suggesting that the vitality of informality, coupled with spatial design and good management, can support the efficient use of resources in better places to live. The book analyses the strengths and weaknesses of informal urbanism and the challenges faced by the fast growing cities of the developing world. Through case studies, it demonstrates the contributions and limitations of different attempts to plan ahead for urban growth, from the creation of formal housing and urban infrastructures for self-built dwellings to the improvement of existing informal settlements. It provides a robust framework for planners and designers, policy-makers, NGOs and local governments working to improve living conditions in developing cities.
Inter American Yearbook On Human Rights Anuario Interamericano De Derechos Humanos Volume 28 2012
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Author : Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-10-24
Inter American Yearbook On Human Rights Anuario Interamericano De Derechos Humanos Volume 28 2012 written by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-24 with Law categories.
Sprawltown
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Author : Richard Ingersoll
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-03-20
Sprawltown written by Richard Ingersoll and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-20 with Architecture categories.
Sprawl. The word calls to mind a host of troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development, and the conversion of farmland to soulless housing developments. In Sprawltown, architectural historian Richard Ingersoll makes the surprising claim that sprawl is an inevitable reality of modern life that should be addressed more thoughtfully and recognized as its own new form of urbanism rather than simply being criticized and condemned. In five thought-provoking chapters, covering topics such as tourism, film, and the automobile, Ingersoll takes the position that any solution to the problems of sprawl—including pressing issues like resource use and energy waste—must take into consideration its undeniable success as a social milieu. No screed against the suburb, this book offers a more sophisticated and nuanced view of the way we think about its rapid development and growth.