Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas


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Vacant urban land--the product of land market activity, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents--is an important challenge for policy makers. Vacant lots on the urban fringe and in central and interstitial areas have affected growth patterns in Latin America. Contributors to this book analyze the problems and opportunities related to vacant urban land in five cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú; and San Salvador, El Salvador.




Cities of Tomorrow


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Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.




Governing the Metropolis


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This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.




La renovación urbana y su régimen jurídico


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Este estudio parte de la hipótesis de que se cierne sobre la ciudad construida una nueva patología, que es la de la obsolescencia de lo construido, y que abordar este problema va a requerir de un tipo de intervención adaptado a las circunstancias del caso, a la que denominamos renovación urbana, configurada como la sustitución de los edificios siguiendo una forma de operar que cuenta con un perfil caracterizador propio, que la diferencia de otras formas de transformación de la ciudad construida que se han dado históricamente. Partiendo de esta hipótesis, se sostiene que la viabilidad de las actuaciones de renovación urbana depende de la vinculación de las mismas con las actuaciones de crecimiento de la ciudad, vinculación posible y oportuna. El régimen jurídico de la renovación urbana, sobre las bases dichas, viene a constituirse en un capítulo más del Derecho urbanístico, que se suma a las actuaciones de crecimiento en terrenos en despoblado o a la rehabilitación de la ciudad con valores patrimoniales históricos o culturales. El presente libro, que tal estudia, va dirigido a quienes se ven en la necesidad diaria de entender y explicar el Derecho urbanístico en el contexto de un ordenamiento jurídico cambiante y nutrido por una pluralidad de fuentes que mantienen relaciones difíciles de precisar en ocasiones, en el que no se aprecian con claridad los ítems relevantes, de cara al nuevo ciclo de construcción y transformación del territorio. También está hecho pensando en los funcionarios que, en las oficinas públicas de urbanismo, tienen que aplicar diariamente el Derecho urbanístico a una realidad territorial que ha cambiado radicalmente en los últimos años.







Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events


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Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.







Protected Landscapes and Cultural and Spiritual Values


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Documents, using case studies, the non-material values that are to be found in protected landscapes.




The Past is a Foreign Country


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Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.




The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law


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This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law. It examines in detail the methodological foundations of the discipline as well as the substance of environmental law across countries from four vantage points: country studies from all continents, responses to common problems (including air pollution, water management, nature conservation, genetically modified organisms, climate change and energy, chemicals, waste), foundational components of environmental law systems (including principles, property rights, administrative and judicial organisation, command-and-control regulation, market mechanisms, informational techniques and liability mechanisms), and common interactions of environmental protection with the broader public, private, and criminal law contexts. The volume brings together the foremost authorities in this field from around the world to provide a concise, self-contained, and technically rigorous account of environmental law as a single overall system.