Ubeda

Perspectives on how the city is Imagined in Latin America. Focussing on Latin America as an urban case study, an examination of urban imaginaries and the construct of our relationships with cities. Perspectives from anthropologists, sociologists, artists, and psychologists.

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

La producción de vivienda formal implica no solo temas de economía urbana, paisaje de la ciudad, calidad de la estructura, ordenamiento del suelo o dinámica de los mercados inmobiliarios, temas tratados en este libro, sino que condensa la preocupación de todo colombiano hoy en día de tener un techo sobre la cabeza. Los casos de Bogotá y Barranquilla sirven para entender la cuestión en Colombia y proponen un entendimiento de la vida urbana y metropolitana más allá de las reducciones a movimientos de precios. La complejidad provoca un encuentro interdisciplinario para aproximarse a la...