Luis Long

"Comprehensive study by a group of scholars explores the development, expansion, and economic impact of haciendas in the state of Morelos, especially those connected to the sugar industry. Illustrated with contemporary color photographs, 19th- and early-20th-century photographs, and maps. Also includes much archival data"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

De pronto, la ciudad por antonomasia del desierto, Las Vegas, cumple cien años. Una existencia longeva, sin duda, para un non-place que brotó casi accidentalmente en unos parajes tan inhóspitos y vacíos como eran los altiplanos de Nevada. Tras una gestación no muy distinta en avatares a la de cualquier otra town del lejano y salvaje Oeste, experimentó una agitada y prolongada adolescencia, hasta que durante los años sesenta del siglo pasado alcanzó una mayoría de edad urdida en las trastiendas de los centros más acendrados del Mob, ambientada en los ruidos cansinos de las ruletas y...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

The publication presents the last four years of research academic projects as well as architectural, landscape, urban development and industrial design projects developed by students and teachers from the Coordinación de Vinculación y Proyectos Especiales of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. The catalogue comprises detail information of 21 projects.