Author: Glen David Kuecker
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498559794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flâneur and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions, and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City’s monumental and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico City.
Mapping the Megalopolis
Author: Glen David Kuecker
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498559794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flâneur and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions, and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City’s monumental and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico City.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498559794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flâneur and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions, and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City’s monumental and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico City.
Life in the Megalopolis
Author: Lucia Sa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131759519X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their brutal social contrasts, and the ever-escalating violence faced by their citizens just an intensification of what Engels described in the first in-depth analysis of an industrial metropolis, nineteenth century Manchester? Or have post-industrial and neo-globalized economies given rise to new forms of urban existence in the so-called developing world? Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo investigates how such questions are explored in cultural productions from these two Latin American megalopolises, the focus being on literature, film popular music, and visual arts. This book combines close readings of works with a constant reference to theoretical, anthropological and social studies of these two cities, and builds on received definitions of the concept megalopolis Life in the Megalopolis is the first book to combine urban-studies theories (particularly Lefebvre, Harvey, and de Certeau) with Benjaminian cultural analyses, and theoretical discussions with close-readings of recent cultural works in various media. It is also the first book to compare Mexico City and São Paulo.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131759519X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their brutal social contrasts, and the ever-escalating violence faced by their citizens just an intensification of what Engels described in the first in-depth analysis of an industrial metropolis, nineteenth century Manchester? Or have post-industrial and neo-globalized economies given rise to new forms of urban existence in the so-called developing world? Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo investigates how such questions are explored in cultural productions from these two Latin American megalopolises, the focus being on literature, film popular music, and visual arts. This book combines close readings of works with a constant reference to theoretical, anthropological and social studies of these two cities, and builds on received definitions of the concept megalopolis Life in the Megalopolis is the first book to combine urban-studies theories (particularly Lefebvre, Harvey, and de Certeau) with Benjaminian cultural analyses, and theoretical discussions with close-readings of recent cultural works in various media. It is also the first book to compare Mexico City and São Paulo.
Megalopolis
Author: Jean Gottmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258423254
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258423254
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Megalopolis Revisited
Author: Jean Gottmann
Publisher: University of Maryland, College Park, Urban Studies & Planning Program
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher: University of Maryland, College Park, Urban Studies & Planning Program
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Metropolis
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1844862208
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
How the city was imagined in maps from ancient times to the present day.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1844862208
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
How the city was imagined in maps from ancient times to the present day.
A Ship Called Destiny
Author: Peter Trower
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
ISBN: 9781896860770
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Poignant and personal but never sentimental, the poems in A Ship Called Destiny tell the story of a life-long romance. In these poems Trower realizes the "soul's completion," finding at last a pervading sense of unity in love.
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
ISBN: 9781896860770
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Poignant and personal but never sentimental, the poems in A Ship Called Destiny tell the story of a life-long romance. In these poems Trower realizes the "soul's completion," finding at last a pervading sense of unity in love.
Megalopolis
Author: Jean Gottmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930
Author: Idurre Alonso
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities—Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima—as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute’s vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities’ changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today’s Latin American megalopolis.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities—Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima—as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute’s vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities’ changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today’s Latin American megalopolis.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Third Earth Resources Technology Satellite-1 Symposium
Author: Stanley C. Freden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description