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Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 102-114, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in the global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities and their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow and compete while caring for the disastrous impacts on Earth and human health caused by the mass ...
Agatino Rizzo, Attilio Petruccioli
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Analizando el valor patrimonial de las transformaciones urbanas en Barcelona
Complutum, 2021 Las ciudades son asentamientos complejos, densamente poblados, que se encuentran en constante transformación. ¿Protegemos las ciudades como imágenes congeladas, sin tener en cuenta los procesos que en ellas acontecen?, ¿qué “patrimonios” conservamos ...
Ana Pastor Pérez, M. Díaz-Andreu
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THE PROMISE OF FOG CAPTURE: Ground‐Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 225-250, May 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article centers on an NGO‐induced fog‐capture project in Lima, Peru. While presented by the NGO as an alternative water‐supply system for residents lacking state infrastructure, the fog catchers ultimately failed to live up to promises about potable water.
CHAKAD OJANI
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kult-ur, 2021 El turismo se ha convertido en un elemento clave en la planificación urbana, desarrollo y evoluciones socioculturales de muchas ciudades. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el estado de la cuestión de la metamorfosis acaecida en el turismo y ...
Marina Haro Aragú +1 more
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023 Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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La turistificación y transformaciones urbanas habitacionales en Purmamarca – Jujuy – Argentina [PDF]
Vivienda y Ciudad, 2017 El presente artículo describe el proceso de turistificación y las transformaciones urbanas habitacionales producidas en la localidad de Purmamarca, Jujuy Argentina - desde finales de los ´90 y durante toda la década del 2000.
Pablo Ávalos
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Revista Urbano, 2022 The eviction of migrants from Plaza Brasil, in the city of Iquique, an act that was questioned due to the violence used by public forces, revealed not just the humanitarian problem involved, but also a turning point in attempts to normalize a process ...
Alberto Prado-Díaz +2 more
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The drive to sustainability: A way in which local initiatives diffuse internationally
Politics &Policy, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 967-991, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines how local initiatives can gain international visibility and recognition as well as how they can diffuse to other cities. It explores the leadership of the mayors of Bogotá, Stockholm, and Portland, but also how there were specific contexts that favored the transformations of these cities.
Xira Ruiz‐Campillo
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Urban Transformations to Keep All the Same: The Power of Ivy Discourses
Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 1320-1343, July 2022., 2022 Abstract The concept of urban transformations has gathered interest among scholars and policymakers calling for radical change towards sustainability. The discourse represents an entry point to address systemic causes of ecological degradation and social injustice, thereby providing solutions to intractable global challenges.
Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto
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Entre la selva y el río: conflictos y transformaciones urbanas en Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo
HISTOReLo: Revista de Historia Regional y Local, 2021 Este artículo aborda el proceso de urbanización de un municipio amazónico: Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo. Tiene en cuenta la interacción de dinámicas históricas y contemporáneas del ámbito nacional, regional y local, y ofrece un análisis cartográfico, contando
Simón Uribe, Jorge-Luis Guzmán-Rocha
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