Taking measures across the American landscape

Taking measures across the American landscape
Corner, James
MacLean, Alex S.
1996
New Haven, Yale University Press. 185 p.
Resumen: The book traces the influence on the American landscape of the Anasazi and the Hopi in the southwest, the French along the Mississippi, the British in the east, the pioneer Americans across the plains, and the technological society across much of modern-day America. It investigates the ways in which landscape representation--particularly aerial vision--not only reflects a given reality but also constitutes a way of seeing and acting in the world. It discusses the many meanings of measure--from practical (such as solar furnaces in California) to poetic (such as raised tablets in Illinois that once formed the structure of an ancient city). And it suggests alternative possibilities for planning and taking future measures in our environment, building upon examples that range from the rectilinear survey landscape to the great transportation networks and such technological innovations as windmill fields, pivot-irrigation systems, and radio-telescope installations.
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El país transnacional

El país transnacional : migración mexicana y cambio social a través de la frontera
Ariza, Marina
Portes, Alejandro
2007
México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales. 712 p.
Resumen: El objetivo de este libro, como se enuncia en la introducción, es contribuir a alimentar el cambio de paradigma en el estudio de la migración internacional con "nuevos hallazgos empíricos y algunas reflexiones teórico–metodológicas" en el marco de la emigración de mexicanos a Estados Unidos. Los coordinadores encaran la empresa mediante cinco apartados, en los que agrupan capítulos sobre remesas, las implicaciones de la acción estatal para los derechos humanos, la influencia recíproca entre identidad y migración, género y relaciones familiares, y discusiones teóricas y metodológicas.
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Sprawl repair manual

Sprawl repair manual
Tachieva, Galina
2010
Washington, Island Press. 291 p.
Resumen: There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However, until now there has been no single guide that directly explains how to repair typical sprawl elements. The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and resource-efficient patterns, from the region and the community to the block and the individual building. As Galina Tachieva asserts in this exceptionally useful book, sprawl repair will require a proactive and aggressive approach, focused on design, regulation and incentives. The Sprawl Repair Manual is a much-needed, single-volume reference for fixing sprawl, incorporating changes into the regulatory system, and implementing repairs through incentives and permitting strategies. This manual specifies the expertise that’s needed and details the techniques and algorithms of sprawl repair within the context of reducing the financial and ecological footprint of urban growth.
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Suburban nation

Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream
Duany, Andres
2010
New York, North Point Press. 294 p.
Resumen: For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the movement, and even their critics, such as Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard, recognized that "Suburban Nation is likely to become this movement's bible." A lively lament about the failures of postwar planning, this is also that rare book that offers solutions: "an essential handbook" (San Francisco Chronicle).
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