Tiempo presente

Tiempo presente : notas sobre el cambio de una cultura
Sarlo, Beatriz.
2010
Buenos Aires : Siglo Veintiuno. 238 p.
Resumen :  A través de esta cuidada selección de artículos, que proponen un audaz recorrido por distintos paisajes de la cultura contemporánea, Beatriz Sarlo captura escenas cotidianas y las interroga en su densidad.
Escritos en tiempo presente, estos ensayos reflexionan también sobre la forma en que el presente se hace cargo de la historia, tomando como motivos para realizar su ejercicio crítico las nuevas formas de la ciudad, la Guerra de Malvinas, el Mundial del 78, la sociedad de consumo, Rodrigo, Soledad, la new age, la izquierda, la política, el mercado y el Estado, los intelectuales, las identidades culturales, el prejuicio.
Intensa, y a veces irónica, comprometida y alejada de toda nostalgia, Sarlo toma partido y nos invita a preguntarnos por los cambios en la cultura y el modo inexorable en que repercuten sobre nuestra vida.
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Writings on cities

Writings on cities
Lefebvre, Henri
1996
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishing.   vi, 250 p.
Resumen : The work of Henri Lefebvre - the only major French intellectual of the post-war period to give extensive consideration to the city and urban life - received considerable attention among both academics and practitioners of the built environment following the publication in English of The Production of Space.
This new collection brings together, for the first time in English, Lefebvre's reflections on the city and urban life written over a span of some twenty years.
The selection of writings is contextualized by an introduction - itself a significant contribution to the interpretation of Henri Lefebvre's work - which places the material within the context of Lefebvre's intellectual and political life and times and raises pertinent issues as to their relevance for contemporary debates over such questions as the nature of urban reality, the production of space and modernity.
Writings on Cities is of particular relevance to architects, planners, geographers, and those interested in the philosophical and political understanding of contemporary life.
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The Foucault effect

The Foucault effect: studies in governmentality : with two lectures by and an interview with Michel Foucault
Burchell, Graham, ed.
Gordon, Collin, ed.
Miller, Peter, ed.
1991
Chicago : University of Chicago Press.   x, 307 p.
Resumen : Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collè ge de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to "Power/Knowledge."
In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or activity of government both in its present form and within a historical perspective as well as the different ways governmentality has been made thinkable and practicable.
Foucault's thoughts on political discourse and governmentality are supplemented by the essays of internationally renowned scholars. United by the common influence of Foucault's approach, they explore the many modern manifestations of government: the reason of state, police, liberalism, security, social economy, insurance, solidarity, welfare, risk management, and more.
The central theme is that the object and the activity of government are not instinctive and natural things, but things that have been invented and learned. "The Foucault Effect" analyzes the thought behind practices of government and argues that criticism represents a true force for change in attitudes and actions, and that extending the limits of some practices allows the invention of others.
This unique and extraordinarily useful collection of articles and primary materials will open the way for a whole new set of discussions of the work of Michel Foucault as well as the status of liberalism, social policy, and insurance.
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Insurgencies

Insurgencies : essays in planning theory
Friedmann, John
2011
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. : Routledge.   xvi, 255 p.
Resumen : For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself.
Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a coherent and compelling story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape its practice.
With each essay given a new introduction to establish its context and importance, this is an ideal text for the study of planning theory and history.
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Constructores inmigrantes

Constructores inmigrantes : transferencias de Alemania a Chile 1852-1875 : edificios y modelos
Alencon Castrillon, Renato
2013
Berlín : DOM publishers.   263 p.
Resumen : La colonización alemana del sur de Chile, iniciada en la década de 1850, dio lugar a la construcción de un extenso patrimonio arquitectónico, que reconocemos como “arquitectura alemana”.
Sin embargo, no está realmente claro en qué medida la arquitectura alemana del sur de Chile está influenciada por la importación de modelos arquitectónicos alemanes, o de qué manera se produjo esta influencia.
Los antecedentes del proceso de colonización son abundantes desde el punto de vista social, y al mismo tiempo existe una extensa documentación del patrimonio construido.
Este trabajo desarrolla una relación específica de los elementos arquitectónicos que permitan identificar y comprender esta influencia con mayor profundidad.
La pregunta a la que intenta dar respuesta este trabajo es, entonces: ¿cuáles son y cómo se produjeron las influencias específicas de la arquitectura alemana en la arquitectura desarrollada por los inmigrantes alemanes del sur de Chile?
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Urbanismo ecológico

Urbanismo ecológico
Mostafavi, Mohsen, ed.
Doherty, Gareth, ed.
2014
Barcelona : Gustavo Gili.   655 p.
Resumen : Si bien el cambio climático, la arquitectura sostenible y las tecnologías ecológicas son cuestiones perfectamente asentadas en el imaginario colectivo, no ha ocurrido lo mismo con aquellos temas que afectan a la sostenibilidad de la ciudad.
Este libro nace precisamente de la apremiante necesidad de abordar el urbanismo desde un enfoque ecológico como método práctico e imaginativo para enfrentarse a la realidad de la ciudad, y constituye, por ello, una apuesta deliberada por asentar definitivamente el concepto de “urbanismo ecológico” a través del compendio de una serie de textos clave sobre la materia. Urbanismo ecológico recopila los artículos del simposio homónimo que tuvo lugar en 2009 en la Graduate School of Design de la Harvard University, así como otros ensayos, conferencias y lecciones vinculados a esta línea de investigación auspiciada por la célebre universidad estadounidense.
El libro, editado por Mohsen Mostafavi y Gareth Doherty, parte de un enfoque interdisciplinario donde confluyen las miradas de arquitectos, urbanistas, diseñadores, teóricos, economistas, ingenieros, artistas y científicos, entre otros especialistas.
El resultado es una amplia panorámica que contribuye a dibujar la imagen plural, compleja y repleta de matices que adquiere el sistema urbano cuando se estudia desde la óptica ecológica.
Una aportación importante, en suma, que da carta de naturaleza a una nueva ética y estética de lo urbano.
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Critical urban studies

Critical urban studies : new directions
Davies, Jonathan S. (ed.)
Imbroscio, David L. (ed.)
2010
Albany : State University of New York Press.   220 p.
Resumen : This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field.
Urban scholarship has had detractors of late, particularly in mainstream political science, where it has been accused of parochialism and insularity. Critical Urban Studies offers a sharp repudiation of this critique, reasserting the need for critical urban scholarship and demonstrating the fundamental importance of urban studies for understanding and changing contemporary social life.
Contributors to the volume identify an orthodox perspective in the field, subject it to critique, and map out a future research agenda for the field. The result is a series of inventive essays pointing scholars and students to the major theoretical and policy challenges facing urbanists and other critical social scientist. “…this volume demonstrates that urban studies is not a stagnant discipline.
Rather, the authors excelled at challenging a number of different orthodoxies to rethink approaches to and about mainstream politics and policies … all researchers involved in urban issues of a wide range of disciplines will find this book of use.” — Journal of Planning Education and Research “The essays in Critical Urban Studies advance the enterprise of critical urban studies.
They challenge a wide range of prevalent orthodoxies and illuminate several new directions on which subsequent critical scholarship and practice can build … The inventive essays will inspire future urban scholars and activists to further advance the theory and practice of critique in even deeper and more transformative directions.” 
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Urban sociology

Urban sociology : critical essays
Pickvance, C. G. (ed.)
2007
London ; New York : Routledge.   223 p.
Resumen :  This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.
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The urban sociology reader

The urban sociology reader
Mele, Christopher
Lin Jan, ed.
Mele, Christopher, ed.
2013
London ; New York : Routledge.   xi, 447 p.
Resumen:  The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and transnational social relations and the regulation of urban space. Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this Reader includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, DuBois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey. The 2nd edition illuminates more recent urban issues such as sprawl, sustainability, immigration and urban protest. Selections are predominantly sociological, but some readings cross disciplinary boundaries. Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, this book brings together important but, till now, widely dispersed writings. Editorial commentaries precede each entry; introducing the text, demonstrating its significance, and outlining the issues surrounding its topic, whilst the associated bibliography enables deeper investigations.
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The Oxford handbook of urban planning

The Oxford handbook of urban planning
Weber, Rachel
Crane, Randall, ed.
2012
New York : Oxford University Press.   864 p.
Resumen : The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Edited by Rachel Weber and Randall Crane, professors at two leading planning institutes in the United States, this handbook collects together over 45 noted field experts to discuss three key questions: Why plan? How and what do we plan? Who plans for whom? These three questions are then applied across three major topics in planning: States, Markets, and the Provision of Social Goods; The Methods and Substance of Planning; and Agency, Implementation, and Decision Making. Covering the key components of the discipline, this book is a comprehensive, discipline-defining text suited for students and seasoned planners alike.
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