Gestión de Grandes Proyectos Urbanos en espacios metropolizados

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

Este texto se ocupa fundamentalmente del diseño y la arquitectura, es decir, la ruta de reconocimiento espacial, que es la menos conocida —o trabajada— dentro de los enfoques del autismo dada su dificultad para ser sintetizada en un paradigma o conjunto normativo para encuadrar, enfocar y facilitar la vida cotidiana o en situaciones de aprendizaje o de tratamiento específico de las personas. La ruta espacial, esto es, el diseño, crea: • Un conjunto de coordenadas espaciales que liberan al usuario de la angustia de no reconocer, de no comprender, y de poder así encontrar los espacios ...

The book analyses a selection of 10 houses and 14 buildings constructed in Costa Rica from 2000 to 2005 and that represent the current urban San Jose's growth trends. The domestic architecture reflects a higher purchasing power with an appreciation oh natural surroundings, the office and industrial buildings are aimed some at rescuing the historic downtown area while others were constructed in the suburban area of the city. Includes biographies of mentioned architects.

To know the work of art in its historical context we can understand and explain its meaning, the symbols involved, the author's intention and the reasons that allowed its creation. In this sense, the book seeks to recognize the various manifestations of art in its historical perspective. The book comprises ten original works, that try to discern the artistic creations since Pre-Hispanic times, in the Viceroyalty, up to the current period, and where visual arts, drama and music are also involved. "This book emerges as a need to spread the texts on art carried out by professors and students of...