Violencia y ficción televisiva. El acontecimiento de los noventa

"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.

Desde los años ochenta el grupo hábitat Pacífico nacido en el CITCE de la Universidad del Valle indaga sobre las peculiaridades de los procesos sociales y territoriales de poblamiento del litoral y los ríos del Pacífico colombiano, la originalidad del sistema urbano-aldeano, del trazado y diseños de los asientos, lo mismo que sobre las características de la vivienda y la arquitectura vernácula; estudios que en ciertos casos culminan con obras de mejoramiento de las condiciones de habitabilidad. Es decir que existe un vínculo directo entre las labores investigativas de tipo académico ...

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

The recent boom of Chilean architecture of international and national recognition has been widely documented and promoted in mass publications, books and specialized journals. This book is a collaboration project between different architects that contribute to this process with critical texts of the historic contexts and problems faced by the urban-architectural practice in Chile, highlighting how the political-cultural events of the last 3 decades has influenced local construction. With texts by Jorge Fco. Liernur, Fernando Pérez, Federico Deambrosis and Pedro Bannen, and a prologue by...