Author: Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837063664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The city trip guide for Caracas (Venezuela)
Author: Publisher: YouGuide Ltd
ISBN: 1837063664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Only the People Can Save the People
Author: Donald V. KingsburyPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438469659
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In a global historical moment of growing mobilizations against inequality, corruption, and exclusion, Only the People Can Save the People illustrates the necessity and challenges of more egalitarian approaches to collective life from one of the most tumultuous and compelling experiments in radical democracy. Donald V. Kingsbury examines twenty-first-century Venezuelan politics from the perspective of constituent power—the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy. In the aftermath of neoliberal structural adjustment, Venezuelan politics have been increasingly reconfigured according to principles of autogestión (self-management), social movement autonomy, protagonistic and participatory democracy, and anti-capitalism. However, inherited and intensifying challenges arising from Venezuela's status as a petrostate, the class and racial divisions that define its society, and the difficulties of defining what Hugo Chávez termed "socialism for the twenty-first century" have resulted in a tumultuous process of social change. Informed by ethnography, contemporary and comparative political thought, and global political economy, Only the People Can Save the People demonstrates how constituent power is shaping collective identity, political conflict, and infrastructural space in contemporary Latin America.
Metropolitan Management, Transportation and Planning
Author: Rail Mass Transit for Developing Countries
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)Publisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727715609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Many developing countries are building metro systems, which have encouraged economic growth in city centres but are proving enormously costly. This book forms an invaluable study of the arguments for and against metros, based on analyses of the advantages and problems encountered in several cities throughout the world. The authors consider how to overcome some of the difficulties, recognizing the crucial economic role of rail mass transit systems in large cities.
Urban-Think Tank
Author: Alfredo BrillembourgPublisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN: 3775742867
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) ist eine interdisziplinäre Designagentur, die aus der politisch instabilen Lage Caracas’ zu Zeiten der Chávez-Ära hervorging und seit gut 20 Jahren Projekte in Lateinamerika, Europa und Afrika verwirklicht. Durch seine vielschichtige Arbeit nahm das Unternehmen Ende der 1990er-Jahre die Vorreiterrolle einer sozialen Wende in der Architektur ein; mit stadtplanerischen Interventionen, die den sozialen Zusammenhalt in den Metropolen auf der südlichen Halbkugel und in den wachsenden Städten Europas stärkten. Zudem produzierte U-TT zahlreiche Medienprojekte, die Film, Theater, Ausstellungen und Druckarbeiten für sich nutzen, um neue diskursive Räume zu schaffen und die Frage aufzuwerfen, wie und für wen unsere Städte entwickelt sind. Die wohl bekannteste Arbeit entstand über das Torre-de-David-Hochhaus, die auf der Architekturbiennale von Venedig 2012 mit dem Goldenen Löwen ausgezeichnet wurde. Dieses Buch blickt jedoch nicht nur zurück, sondern auch nach vorn, ersinnt neue Räume für eine hyper-urbanisierte Welt und ermöglicht Einblicke in informelle Siedlungen, räumliche Spielflächen und künstlerische Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum.
Compact Cities
Author: Rod BurgessPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135803900
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This new book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Advances in Communications-Based Train Control Systems
Author: F. Richard YuPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482257459
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
With rapid population explosion, improving rail transit speed and capacity is strongly desirable around the world. Communication-based train control (CBTC) is an automated train control system using high capacity bidirectional train-ground communications to ensure the safe operation of rail vehicles. This book presents the latest advances in CBTC r
Venezuela Up-to-date
Author: Subway Environmental Design Handbook
Author: Transit Development CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Subway Environmental Design Handbook: Principles and applications
Author: Transit Development CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description