La herencia medieval del Brasil

The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...

El océano como paisaje: Pageant of the Pacific (Esplendor del Pacífico) es un estudio sobre los mapas murales que Miguel Covarrubias haría para la Golden Gate International Exhibition de 1939. Como señala la autora, Mónica Ramírez, el discurso oficial de este evento cultural y político afirmaba su propia creación como una forma de celebrar la novedosa tecnología utilizada en la construcción del emblemático puente. Desde una perspectiva mucho más amplia, se trataba sobre todo de situar a la ciudad de San Francisco como el centro de una expansión por parte de los Estados Unidos...

En una poca en que presenciamos el cuestionamiento, la aparici n y la reelaboraci n sistem tica de categor as identitarias que hasta ahora se supon an definitivas e inmutables, Solange Alberro expone una audaz propuesta Para el proceso mexicano en donde el papel de la religi n resulta no s lo importante, sino vital e imprescindible. la autora aborda las vicisitudes del surgimiento de una identidad espec ficamente criolla, en donde el factor religioso brindaba grandes posibilidades de discusi n y difusi n de opiniones e ideas.

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