New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro [PDF]
From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different attempts for ordering cities ...
Remesar, Antoni
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The "Rabassa Morta" in Catalan viticulture: the rise and decline of a long-term sharecropping contract, 1670s-1920s [PDF]
For long periods, and in line with recent theoretical literature, the rabassa morta sharecropping contract successfully reduced problems of moral hazard and opportunistic behavior, and provided incentives for sharecroppers to respond to market ...
James Simpson, Juan Carmona Pidal
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A first-class transversal and innovative tourist product [PDF]
Innovative elements from the cross-over approach and the conception of a project aimed at serving different interests and needs of different ...
Torrent, Patrick
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How can SMEs benefit from big data? Challenges and a path forward [PDF]
Big data is big news, and large companies in all sectors are making significant advances in their customer relations, product selection and development and consequent profitability through using this valuable commodity. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Ahlemeyer-Stubbe +28 more
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Bandits, banditry and royal power in Catalonia between the 16th and 17th centuries [PDF]
This article is a synthesis of a phenomenon banditry in Catalonia which peaked in the century and a half between approximately 1500 and 1630. In this article, by banditry we mean the kind waged by both the upper classes and nobility and the lower ...
Belenguer i Cebrià, Ernest
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The nanotechnology revolution in Barcelona: innovation & creativity by universities [PDF]
This paper analyses the state of the art for nanotechnology in Barcelona, focussing on the scientific and economic challenges arising from nanotechnologies and the creative and innovative framework in Barcelona that could be used to meet them ...
Juanola-Feliu, Esteve
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Anarchism in the Catalan-speaking countries: between syndicalism and propaganda (1868-1931) [PDF]
This text surveys the course of the anarchist movement in the Catalan-speaking lands from their introduction as part of the Democratic Revolution of September 1868 until the fall of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship.
Teresa Abelló
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Catalan university libraries [PDF]
A university library is a cornerstone in the research of any country, and as the English say, it is the heart and measure of a university.Before we embark upon the study of Catalan university libraries it would be convenient to have an overview of the ...
Dilmé, M. Dolors +1 more
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Critical review of the bibliography on the History of Translation in Spain [PDF]
This article deals critically and succinctly with the development of the studies on translation history in Spain, starting from counting the bibliographic production (researches, studies, articles, publications, etc.).
Herrero Díaz, Susi (trans.) +1 more
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Adolf Meyer and Spain: a historical account gleaned through his correspondence [PDF]
El psiquiatra de origen suizo Adolf Meyer (1866-1950) jugó, a principios del siglo XX, un papel esencial en la definición y la institucionalización de la higiene mental.
Sánchez González, Natividad
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