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Morse, Richard M., and Edward E. Crain. "Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands." Hispanic American Historical Review 76, no. 3 (August 1996): 540. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2517820.
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Morse, Richard M. "Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands." Hispanic American Historical Review 76, no. 3 (August 1, 1996): 540–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.3.540.
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Raymond, Mark. "Locating Caribbean Architecture: Narratives and Strategies." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 17, no. 2 (July 1, 2013): 186–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323391.
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Mignucci, Andrés. "Casa Fullana: a model for modern living in the tropics." Modern Houses, no. 64 (2021): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/64.a.zebgxty3.
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Casa Fullana [Fullana House], built in 1955 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is an exemplary model of Henry Klumb’s (1905-1984) design principles for modern living in the tropics. German architect Henry Klumb conducted a prolific architectural practice in Puerto Rico, producing some of the most iconic examples of tropical modernism in the Caribbean. His work, most notably at the University of Puerto Rico (1946-1966) (UPR) and in landmark projects like the San Martin de Porres Church (1948) in Cataño, constituted a breakthrough in Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American architecture. Anchored in the principles of modern architecture, specifically of an organic architecture put forward by his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Klumb’s work is deeply rooted in the specificities of the landscape, topography, and climate of Puerto Rico as a tropical island.
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Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, and Patricia A. McAnany. "TERMINAL CLASSIC CIRCULAR ARCHITECTURE IN THE SIBUN VALLEY, BELIZE." Ancient Mesoamerica 24, no. 2 (2013): 295–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536113000199.
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AbstractTerminal Classic circular architecture has been characterized as a “non-Classic” trait stemming from Chontal-Itza groups from the Gulf lowlands who developed a long-distance, circum-peninsular trade route and established their capital city at Chichen Itza in northern Yucatan. Recent investigations of a series of circular shrines proximate to the Caribbean coast in Belize have yielded ceramics and radiocarbon dates that link these buildings to the ninth century, coeval with the early Sotuta phase at Chichen Itza (a.d.830–900). We present an architectural comparison of circular shrines and map out a network of sites that cluster along the rivers and coast of Belize. We consider two possibilities that may not be mutually exclusive: (1) local elite emulation of northern styles following pilgrimage to Chichen Itza for political accession ceremonies, and, (2) trading diasporas involving small-scale migration of Chontal-Itza merchants along the eastern Caribbean coast.
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Martínez Osorio, Pedro, and Eder García Sánchez. "Extension and pedagogical practice in architecture." Estoa, no. 15 (2019): 147–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18537/est.v008.n015.a12.
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The pedagogical practices developed in articulation with the extension office called "architectural consulting" attached to the architecture program of Caribbean University Corporation in Sincelejo, Colombia, are presented in order to reflect on the exercises developed in the light of one of the functions inherent in the university in the 21st century: innovation, specifically speaking of recent trends in social sustainability and its relationship with pedagogical practice in architecture. The adopted methodology, with a participatory approach, was developed in 4 phases: problem identification, work criteria, conceptualization, and implementation. Examples of the participatory works developed by students of the architecture program are shown, which generate alternatives for local development in the city, in places where the municipal administration and its planning structures do not reach to arrive in an effective way. Changes are identified in the role of pedagogical practices focused on social innovation and the new functions they assume, students, teachers and communities involved in the critical construction of the new citizenship.
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Idárraga-García, Javier, Douglas G. Masson, Jacqueline García, Hermann León, and Carlos A. Vargas. "Architecture and development of the Magdalena Submarine Fan (southwestern Caribbean)." Marine Geology 414 (August 2019): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.05.005.
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Chapman, William. "Review: Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands by Edward E. Crain." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55, no. 2 (June 1, 1996): 198–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/991130.
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RENEMA, WILLEM. "INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE OF MIOCENE PSEUDOTABERINA AND ITS RELATION TO CARIBBEAN ARCHAIASINS." Palaeontology 51, no. 1 (January 17, 2008): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00731.x.
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Martínez Osorio, Pedro Arturo. "In memoriam: Giancarlo Macchi, un arquitecto italiano en el Caribe colombiano (1940-2010)." Procesos Urbanos 1 (January 1, 2014): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.21892/2422085x.15.
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Resumen: Este artículo presenta resultados de la investigación realizada sobre uno de los arquitectos más representativos de la ciudad de Barranquilla, el cual dejó su huella en la historia de la arquitectura del Caribe colombiano. La investigación desarrollada tiene como objetivo principal reconstruir la historia de vida de este arquitecto y su pensamiento sobre la arquitectura, a través de la narración en viva voz, y sentir del mismo personaje, testimonio que se convierte en un legado sobre sus visiones e ideas y sobre el deber ser de la disciplina de la arquitectura en el mundo contemporáneo. Desarrollada con un enfoque histórico hermenéutico, la investigación realizó una búsqueda en profundidad, a través del estudio de caso de un arquitecto de gran importancia en la construcción y gestión de una de las ciudades capitales del Caribe colombiano. A partir de la narración de este personaje se recrea una parte de la historia de la arquitectura moderna de la ciudad de Barranquilla, los aciertos y desaciertos en la búsqueda de un desarrollo para la ciudad y la región. Como conclusión se identifican fragmentos de la historia de la arquitectura y el desarrollo urbano en el Caribe colombiano, se observa también al Caribe como una tierra exuberante, con un paisaje encantador, que se fue transformando a partir de las intervenciones del hombre.
___Palabras clave: Arquitectura, arquitecto, historia de vida, Caribe colombiano.
___Abstract: This article presents results of the realized research on one of the most representative architectsof Barranquilla's city, who left his fingerprint in the history of the architecture of the Colombian Caribbean. The developed investigation has as principal aim to reconstruct the history of life of this architect and his thoughts on the architecture, across the story in alive voice, and feels of the same personage, testimony that turns into a legacy on his visions and ideas and on the duty to be of the discipline of the architecture in thecontemporary world. Developed with a historical hermeneutic approach, the investigation realized a search in depth, across the study of case of an architect of great importance in the construction and management of one of the capital cities of the Colombian Caribbean. From the story of this personage there reconstruct itself a part of the history of the modern architecture of Barranquilla's city, the successes and mistakes in the search of a development for the city and the region. As a conclusion there are identified fragments of the history of the architecture and the urban development in the Colombian Caribbean, the Caribbean is observed also as an exuberant land, with a charming landscape, which was transforming from the interventions of the man.
___Keywords: Architecture, architect, history of life, Colombian Caribbean.
___Recibido febrero de 4 2014 / Aceptado agosto 30 de 2014
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Ercilla, Gemma, Belén Alonso, Ferran Estrada, Francesco L. Chiocci, Jesús Baraza, and Marcel li Farran. "The Magdalena Turbidite System (Caribbean Sea): present-day morphology and architecture model." Marine Geology 185, no. 3-4 (June 2002): 303–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0025-3227(02)00182-2.
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LOW, SETHA M. "Indigenous Architecture and the Spanish American Plaza in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean." American Anthropologist 97, no. 4 (October 28, 2009): 748–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1995.97.4.02a00160.
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VAN MARREWIJK, DRÉ, and FLOORTJE ALDERSHOFF. "Saba, de onbedorven koningin van de Antillen." Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie 5, no. 3 (January 1, 2020): 185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/thg2020.3.005.marr.
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Saba, the unspoiled Queen of the Antilles The isolated Caribbean island of Saba is affectionately called ‘the unspoiled Queen’, due to the unaffected character of its natural environment. European colonists from Zeeland (The Netherlands) and the British Isles occupied the island four centuries ago and partially changed it into a cultural landscape with an outstanding character and a vernacular architecture that is worth to be well protected. The inhabitants – still no more than 2000 – had to adjust to the rugged and mountainous landscape. This is expressed by the location of the villages, the network of paths and stairs connecting them, the construction and size of the wooden cottages and the cisterns and burial sites on their properties. This combination makes Saba unique in the Caribbean region. The Saban architecture which is rooted in a Victorian-British building tradition, has hardly changed over the years, though building in concrete is a serious threat nowadays.
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Crock, John G., and Nanny Carder. "Diet and Rank in a Caribbean Maritime Society." Latin American Antiquity 22, no. 4 (December 2011): 573–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.22.4.573.
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AbstractThe investigation of social inequality in the Caribbean mainly has focused on the larger islands of the Greater Antilles where ethnohistoric records and monumental architecture form the basis for analysis of precolumbian complex societies. This paper presents evidence for status differentiation in the Lesser Antilles on the small island of Anguilla within a deposit at the Sandy Hill site and evaluates associated archaeofauna for evidence of rank-based differences in food consumption. When compared with three other sites, the higher density of status-related artifacts and higher densities of food remains at the Sandy Hill site are interpreted as the result of feasting. No evidence for inequality is observed in patterns of food consumption.
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Sheller, Mimi. "Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Software, Mobilities, and the Architecture of Caribbean Paradise." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 41, no. 6 (June 2009): 1386–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a41248.
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Van der Aa, Jef. "Sharing Time and the Poetic Patterning of Caribbean Independence: The Narrative Architecture of Voice." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 44, no. 2 (June 2013): 177–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12014.
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Dyer, Ronald A. D. "Exploring the Relevancy of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)." Information Resources Management Journal 27, no. 2 (April 2014): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/irmj.2014040105.
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The challenge of Information and Communication Technology Management within the Caribbean university system remains daunting. On the surface there exists constant need to revisit infrastructure, system architecture, software and relevant hardware in keeping with the myriad number of changes across the global technology landscape. However, a greater challenge is emerging rapidly forcing universities across the globe to re-evaluate their strategic direction as it relates to course delivery. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent the next frontier for open and distance education; allowing for dispersion of courses (free of charge) to participants with a diverse array of digital content spanning the sciences, arts, humanities and business. MOOCs represent a new thinking for content design/delivery rooted in the transformation of production and knowledge sharing Tapscott & Williams, (2007). University systems regionally as traditional gatekeepers of knowledge must now become au courant to ensure currency and competitiveness. This paper examines MOOCs as a new digital content frontier, their relevance to Caribbean higher education institutions and the challenges that universities face as they become more prevalent. It will also provide insights into the potential strategies for adoption of MOOCs within the Caribbean university system.
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Rosenswig, Robert M., and Marilyn A. Masson. "TRANSFORMATION OF THE TERMINAL CLASSIC TO POSTCLASSIC ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE AT CAYE COCO, BELIZE." Ancient Mesoamerica 13, no. 2 (July 2002): 213–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536102132123.
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In this paper, we analyze the distribution of Late Postclassic (A.D. 1250–1500) architecture and associated artifacts of the Maya site of Caye Coco, Belize. Artifact density and distribution suggest that different buildings served different functions and reflect a range of domestic and non-domestic activities at the island. An assessment of the labor investment required to build the seventeen structures at Caye Coco provides evidence of the degree of social hierarchy at this site, as many more people would have been required to build its elite residences than could have lived in them. The shift in the focus of architectural construction to the island at Progresso Lagoon in the Late Postclassic contrasts with the predominance of construction on the west shore during the Terminal Classic period. This trend reflects the emergence of a new political center among the lagoon settlements. It also may suggest an increased concern with aquatic transportation of trade goods during the Postclassic period, as Caye Coco is the most prominent island of the lagoon, which connects directly to the Caribbean Sea. The architecture at Caye Coco suggests that Late Postclassic political organization of northeastern Belize was more hierarchical than has been previously documented. This paper is the first systematic effort to quantify architectural labor investment and size distribution at a southern lowland Postclassic Maya site in order to address the issue of sociopolitical hierarchy.
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Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Jennifer A. Gill, and Nicholas K. Dulvy. "Complex reef architecture supports more small-bodied fishes and longer food chains on Caribbean reefs." Ecosphere 2, no. 10 (October 2011): art118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/es11-00185.1.
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Zúñiga Carrasco, Iván Renato. "Architecture East Coast of Quintana Roo: a legacy of Late Postclassic in the Mexican Caribbean." Memorias, no. 29 (January 1, 2016): 136–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.29.8262.
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ALVAREZ-FILIP, LORENZO, ISABELLE M. CÔTÉ, JENNIFER A. GILL, ANDREW R. WATKINSON, and NICHOLAS K. DULVY. "Region-wide temporal and spatial variation in Caribbean reef architecture: is coral cover the whole story?" Global Change Biology 17, no. 7 (January 14, 2011): 2470–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02385.x.
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Verri, Valeria Guzmán. "Gifting Architecture: China and the National Stadium in Costa Rica, 2007–11." Architectural History 63 (2020): 283–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/arh.2020.7.
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AbstractThe delivery of stadiums — either as gifts or as concessional loans — is part of a strategy that the People's Republic of China has been implementing since the mid-1960s in its diplomatic relations with Asian, African, Caribbean and South Pacific countries. The National Stadium in Costa Rica, designed and built from 2007 to 2011, is a prime example of China's diplomatic drive through the cultural-geopolitical spaces of the ‘Third World’. It reveals the political, financial and diplomatic operations at stake, the kind of roles architects are expected to perform and the forms of architectural debate (if any) they elicit. The stadium also brought with it the visions, interests and weaknesses of specific architectural practices related to Chinese foreign-aid projects, which involved the replication of identical forms across continents. The building highlights the interrelated processes that China has developed over decades through diplomacy and financing, the construction industry, public administration, architectural know-how and global trade.
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Souffrant, Eddy. "Some Approaches to an Ethics for Disaster." Philosophy in the Contemporary World 25, no. 2 (2019): 66–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pcw201925217.
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We have witnessed, and in some instance from afar, disasters of all sorts that span the globe from the Caribbean, South and North America, Asia, to Australia and other affected regions of the world. Some of these destabilizing and at times fatal events have resulted in lives lost, forced migration, and a restructuring of the physical, social and economic architecture of the affected parts of the globe. Further, the disasters as massive restructuring of the physical and psychological status quo are at times human made and at others, natural.
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Alzate-Gaviria, Liliana, Jorge Domínguez-Maldonado, Rubí Chablé-Villacís, Edgar Olguin-Maciel, Rosa María Leal-Bautista, Gonzalo Canché-Escamilla, Adán Caballero-Vázquez, Cecilia Hernández-Zepeda, Felipe Alonso Barredo-Pool, and Raúl Tapia-Tussell. "Presence of Polyphenols Complex Aromatic “Lignin” in Sargassum spp. from Mexican Caribbean." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9, no. 1 (December 23, 2020): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse9010006.
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In recent years, the massive influx of pelagic Sargassum spp. has generated great interest in the scientific community, highlighting the urgency of addressing the physiology and biochemical composition of these species. Until now, the presence of lignified cells in the tissue of Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans has not been reported. Although ‘‘lignin-like’’ compounds have been identified in green algae, the presence of true lignin in the Sargassum genus has not been confirmed. Our work is the first report of lignified cells forming the secondary cell wall in these Sargassum. This study used histological techniques applied to thick sections for identifying lignin-like tissues in Sargassum spp. The dyes as Safranin O and Toluidine have been used to differentiate lignin and cellulose in conducting tissue and to indicate the presence, absence, and distribution of these compounds in tissues. This work is the initial study of the cell wall heteropolymers structure and arrangement in Sargassum spp., providing insights into the unique cell wall architecture of these seaweeds.
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Cabarcas Simancas, Manuel, Angélica María Rada Santiago, and Brandon Humberto Vargas Vera. "Gas transport at dense phase conditions for the development of deepwater fields in the Colombian Caribbean sea." CT&F - Ciencia, Tecnología y Futuro 10, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.29047/01225383.131.
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The purpose of this article is to set out the benefits of using the dense phase gas transport in future projects in the Caribbean Sea and to verify that when operating pipelines at high pressures, more mass per unit of volume is transported, and liquid formation risks are mitigated in hostile environments and low temperatures.This study contains key data about gas production fields in deep and ultra-deep waters around the world, which serve as a basis for research and provide characteristics for each development to be contrasted with the subsea architecture proposed in this paper. Additionally, analogies are established between the target field (Gorgón-1, Kronos-1 and Purple Angel-1) and other offshore gas fields that have similar reservoir properties. Using geographic information systems, the layout of a gas pipeline and a subsea field architecture that starts in the new gas province is proposed.Finally, using a hydraulic simulation tool, the gas transport performance in dense phase is analyzed and compared with the conventional way of transporting gas by underwater pipelines, achieving up to 20 % in cost savings when dense phase is applied.
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Salas, Julián. "Risk Assesment of Socio-Natural Disasters in Central America and the Caribbean." Open House International 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 8–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-01-2008-b0002.
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This paper analyses and quantifies the relative level of risk in a geographical area that is vulnerable to natural phenomena and with a high proportion of its population in a situation of residential poverty. We deduce that the hazard in the area, composed of nine Central American and Caribbean countries, is significantly higher than the world average. The first aspect is covered in the sections Population at risk and Natural phenomena, which analyse the ‘study area’. The second aspect is covered by Poverty in the ‘study area’, various analyses of the physical situation in the target area, inhabited by almost 160 million people. Contrasted information is used as a basis for the concepts underpinning the extraordinary presence and seriousness of the socio-natural phenomena in this area. The interrelationship between the degree of vulnerability and poverty leads to the conclusion that these are the primary causes of disaster-related destruction, which in a 33 year period (1972 to 2005) has left an annual average of 20,000 human lives lost, 250,000 directly affected and approximately ten billion dollars in material damage.
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Laya, Juan Carlos, Jonathan Sulaica, Chia Pei Teoh, Fiona Whitaker, Tatyana Gabellone, Maurice E. Tucker, Philipp Tesch, Brent Miller, Kieron Prince, and Ingrid Izaguirre. "Controls on Neogene carbonate facies and stratigraphic architecture of an isolated carbonate platform – the Caribbean island of Bonaire." Marine and Petroleum Geology 94 (June 2018): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.03.031.
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Torrent, Horacio. "Reuse and Transformation of a Modern Movement Masterpiece: UN-CEPAL-ECLAC Building, Santiago de Chile." Reuse, Renovation and Restoration, no. 52 (2015): 60–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/52.a.b7ufncu4.
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Recent interventions in modern oeuvres of high cultural significance have set new challenges, opening discussion on the various positions associated with their preservation and sustainability. In particular, the relationship between newly conceived architecture and modern heritage, for which the analysis of the design in the original building, the ideas promoted in terms of its significance and the results obtained in material terms, become the key features in each case. The experience of the United Nations ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) building in Santiago, Chile, may, in this sense, be of special interest in order to verify possibilities of sustainability that assume both the contingencies among which the rehabilitation process takes place and the values recognized in the building as monument.
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Boswell, Suzanne F. "“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace." American Literature 93, no. 3 (July 26, 2021): 417–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361251.
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Abstract This essay uncovers the environmental and historical conditions that played a role in cyberspace’s popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. Tracing both fictional and critical constructions of cyberspace in a roughly twenty-year period from the publication of William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy (1984–1988) to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this essay argues that cyberspace’s infinite, virtual territory provided a solution to the apparent ecological crisis of the 1980s: the fear that the United States was running out of physical room to expand due to overdevelopment. By discursively transforming the technology of cyberspace into an “electronic frontier,” technologists, lobbyists, and journalists turned cyberspace into a solution for the apparent American crisis of overdevelopment and resource loss. In a period when Americans felt detached from their own environment, cyberspace became a new frontier for exploration and a so-called American space to which the white user belonged as an indigenous inhabitant. Even Gibson’s critique of the sovereign cyberspace user in the Sprawl trilogy masks the violence of cybercolonialism by privileging the white American user. Sprawl portrays the impossibility of escaping overdevelopment through cyberspace, but it routes this impossibility through the specter of racial contamination by Caribbean hackers and Haitian gods. This racialized frontier imaginary shaped the form of internet technologies throughout the 1990s, influencing the modern user’s experience of the internet as a private space under their sovereign control. In turn, the individualism of the internet experience restricts our ability to create collective responses to the climate crisis, encouraging internet users to see themselves as disassociated from conditions of environmental and social catastrophe.
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KITLV, Redactie. "Book Reviews." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 71, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1997): 107–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002619.
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Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. xxi + 228 pp.-Samuel Martínez, Michiel Baud, Peasants and Tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1870-1930. Knoxville; University of Tennessee Press, 1995. x + 326 pp.-Robert C. Paquette, Aline Helg, Our rightful share: The Afro-Cuban struggle for equality, 1886-1912. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xii + 361 pp.-Daniel C. Littlefield, Roderick A. McDonald, The economy and material culture of slaves: Goods and Chattels on the sugar plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xiv + 339 pp.-Jorge L. Chinea, Luis M. Díaz Soler, Puerto Rico: desde sus orígenes hasta el cese de la dominación española. Río Piedras: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1994. xix + 758 pp.-David Buisseret, Edward E. Crain, Historic architecture in the Caribbean Islands. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994. ix + 256 pp.-Hilary McD. Beckles, Mavis C. Campbell, Back to Africa. 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Greene, Glyne A. Griffith, Deconstruction, imperialism and the West Indian novel. Kingston: The Press - University of the West Indies, 1996. xxiii + 147 pp.-Donald R. Hill, Peter Manuel ,Caribbean currents: Caribbean music from Rumba to Reggae. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. xi + 272 pp., Kenneth Bilby, Michael Largey (eds)-Daniel J. Crowley, Judith Bettelheim, Cuban festivals: An illustrated anthology. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. x + 261 pp.-Judith Bettelheim, Ramón Marín, Las fiestas populares de Ponce. San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1994. 277 pp.-Marijke Koning, Eric O. Ayisi, St. Eustatius: The treasure island of the Caribbean. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1992. xviii + 224 pp.-Peter L. Patrick, Marcyliena Morgan, Language & the social construction of identity in Creole situations. 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Vernon, Christopher. "Review: Antonin Nechodoma, Architect, 1877-1928: The Prairie School in the Caribbean by Thomas S. Marvel." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54, no. 1 (March 1, 1995): 91–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/991034.
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Cimadomo, G., N. González Meixuero, J. L. Jamauca, C. Castaño Gil, and M. Martín Sánchez. "DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONAL HOUSING IN MAYANGNA COMMUNITIES. BOSAWÁS BIOSPHERE RESERVE, NICARAGUA." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIV-M-1-2020 (July 24, 2020): 203–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliv-m-1-2020-203-2020.
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Abstract. The Mayangna ethnic community populate the UNESCO Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in the north of Nicaragua, in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. During the volunteer program developed by the School of Architecture at the University of Malaga, Spain in the summer of 2019, the architecture of a traditional Mayangna house in Santa María (Bonanza municipal term) was documented. Documentation and digital reconstruction of this typology is still inadequate and this is considered a crucial task given that many of these traditional buildings are at risk of disappearing, as the comparison with more recent buildings in Sakalwas (Bonanza) shows. The paper describes, focusing on a typological and construction analysis, the original houses and the domestic culture of this community, characterized by the use of pressed bamboo for the external walls and Suita palm leaves for the roofs. Other characteristics are the lack of internal distribution and the use of piles to elevate the single roof from the ground. A slow process of transformation has been detected, leading to increased environmental costs and less effective solutions for combating tropical climatology and heavy raining periods. Finally, we discuss how the active protection of the Biosphere Reserve should be compatible with the preservation of traditional houses, for a more socially and environmentally sustainable future.
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Gunaratne, Anjuli I. "The Tracées of René Ménil." CLR James Journal 26, no. 1 (2020): 87–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/clrjames20212376.
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The figure of the tracée is significant for Ménil’s understanding of spatio-temporality, an understanding upon which rest, so this essay argues, his concepts of critique, poetic knowledge, and literary form. The argument takes as its starting point the work Ménil did to conceptualize history as the poesis of recuperation. In doing so, the essay argues for a renewed understanding of Ménil’s contribution to Caribbean philosophy as a whole. One of the most important components of this contribution, the essay claims, is the manner in which Ménil shifts the focus from how linguistic and cultural identity forms in the Antilles to how history appears. What this means is that Ménil works to displace the centrality of folklore and orality to the construction of Antillean identity in order to imagine how Antillean culture comes also to be expressed non-discursively. In Ménil’s work, this displacement occurs primarily by his re-thinking the relationship of architecture to literature. Re-thinking this relationship entails for Ménil recuperating the traces of an Antillean “past passed over,” which unexpectedly appear in both architectural structures and literary works. Paying attention to this particular and peculiar intellectual focus in Ménil’s work, this essay ultimately reconsiders the roles played by both discursive and non-discursive arts in the constitution of a decolonized aesthetics in the Antilles.
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Martínez Osorio, Gilberto Emiro. "From the singular architecture, to the consonant architecture: The relationship between architecture and the shape of the city in the Colombian Caribbean, 2nd half of the twentieth century. A look from the work of Ujueta, Cepeda, Delgado and Hernández." Memorias, no. 26 (January 1, 2015): 27–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.26.7299.
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MADDOCKS, ROSALIE F. "Taxonomic applications of the esophageal flapper valve in the Genus Neonesidea (Bairdioidea, Podocopida, Ostracoda), including descriptions of new and poorly known species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico." Zootaxa 4903, no. 4 (January 11, 2021): 451–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4903.4.1.
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Species and genera of Bairdiidae can be difficult to discriminate, because of the somewhat limited morphological range of the carapace and limbs and the prevalence of homeomorphy. Attention to the esophageal flapper valve, an uncalcified but relatively well sclerotized structure, may contribute to more reliable identifications. Living species of Neonesidea exhibit sufficient variability in the architecture of this structure to suggest that it may have taxonomic value. Twelve named and three new species are examined to test this premise: N. bacata, N. caraionae n. sp., N. decipiens, N. credibilis n. sp., N. forea n. sp., N. edentulata, N. gerda, N. holdeni, N. longisetosa, N. manningi, N. mediterranea, N. omnivaga, N. plumulosa, N. schulzi, N. tenera. The geographic range of N. gerda is extended across the Gulf of Mexico, while the ranges of N. longisetosa and N. dinochelata are restricted. This supplemental information helps to clarify the relationships of several poorly known species from carbonate environments of Bermuda, the Bahamas, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean.
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Burden-Stelly, Charisse. "On Bankers and Empire." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 24, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 175–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604586.
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This essay offers a critical engagement with historian Peter James Hudson’s groundbreaking text Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean. It begins with an analysis of Hudson’s detailed account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking, imperialism, and (neo)colonialism in the epoch of US-led finance capitalism. Then it builds on Hudson’s concept of “racial capitalism,” which the author defines and explicates as a war-driven racially hierarchical global system constituting white supremacist accumulation, dependent extraction, imperial expropriation, labor superexploitation, and (neo)colonial absorption of financial risk. Next, it analyzes antiblackness—understood as legitimating architecture that devalues, distorts, criminalizes, and abjects those racialized as black—as a constitutive feature of racial capitalism. Finally, the essay illuminates the latter’s inextricable link to antiradicalism, defined as the disciplining of communists, socialists, and other radicals whose ideas, politics, or practices are deemed subversive of or threatening to the perpetuation of the capitalist world-economy.
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MADDOCKS, ROSALIE F. "Taxonomic applications of the esophageal flapper valve in the Genus Neonesidea (Bairdioidea, Podocopida, Ostracoda), including descriptions of new and poorly known species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico." Zootaxa 4903, no. 4 (January 11, 2021): 451–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4903.4.1.
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Species and genera of Bairdiidae can be difficult to discriminate, because of the somewhat limited morphological range of the carapace and limbs and the prevalence of homeomorphy. Attention to the esophageal flapper valve, an uncalcified but relatively well sclerotized structure, may contribute to more reliable identifications. Living species of Neonesidea exhibit sufficient variability in the architecture of this structure to suggest that it may have taxonomic value. Twelve named and three new species are examined to test this premise: N. bacata, N. caraionae n. sp., N. decipiens, N. credibilis n. sp., N. forea n. sp., N. edentulata, N. gerda, N. holdeni, N. longisetosa, N. manningi, N. mediterranea, N. omnivaga, N. plumulosa, N. schulzi, N. tenera. The geographic range of N. gerda is extended across the Gulf of Mexico, while the ranges of N. longisetosa and N. dinochelata are restricted. This supplemental information helps to clarify the relationships of several poorly known species from carbonate environments of Bermuda, the Bahamas, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean.
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Villamil-Cárdenas, Valeria, and Ivan Osuna-Motta. "Minga: modelo replicable de renovación urbana sostenible, caso Buenaventura." Revista Hábitat Sustentable 11, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 58–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22320/07190700.2021.11.01.05.
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This article presents the results obtained in research made during a sustainable urban renewal design in the city of Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, as part of MINGA team's proposal for SDLAC 2019 (Solar Decathlon Latin America and Caribbean). This project was developed by a group of students and professors, as part of the undergraduate programs of architecture and civil engineering of the partner universities in the MINGA team. A project-based teaching-learning methodology was used, integrating the curricula in interdisciplinary project workshop-type courses. The main goal was to demonstrate the viability of a resilient urban planning project, conceived for the future climate in a coastal city in the hot-humid tropics. The results showed that a climate-resilient urbanism can be created, which guarantees the permanence of the original inhabitants of the coastal areas, mitigating flooding risks, and preserving the cultural roots of the inhabitants, even under sea-rise scenarios.
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Gebhard, David. "Some Additional Observations on California's Monterey Tradition." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 46, no. 2 (June 1, 1987): 157–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990184.
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Between the years 1834 and 1850, California experienced the construction of a group of two-story porched or cantilevered balcony adobes, which eventually came to be labeled as the Monterey style. The first cluster of these Monterey adobes was built in the mid-1830s. The earliest of these, by a matter of months, was the Alpheus B. Thompson adobe (1834-1836) in Santa Barbara. Others, including the often-discussed Thomas Oliver Larkin adobe (1834-1837), were scattered throughout much of the length of coastal California. These California Monterey style adobes not only represent a commingling of Hispanic and Anglo architectural traditions, but their specific porched and balconied forms were clearly related to English, French, Spanish, and American two-story dwellings built in the Caribbean area, in the American Southeast, in the lower Mississippi Delta, and in the American Southwest of Texas and New Mexico.
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Marçais, Ambroise, Ludovic Lhermitte, Maria Artesi, Keith Durkin, Vincent Hahaut, Véronique Avettand Fenoel, Julie Bruneau, et al. "Longitudinal Evolution and Clinical Impact of Subclonal Mutational Architecture in Adult T Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma." Blood 132, Supplement 1 (November 29, 2018): 2841. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-99-115961.
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Abstract Introduction Adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is a rare mature T cell malignancy induced by human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1). The prognosis is poor, especially in aggressive subtypes with a median overall survival (OS) of less than one year despite intensive treatment. Indolent forms also carry a relatively adverse outcome with a median OS of 36 and 56 months for chronic and smoldering types respectively, mainly due to a clonal evolution towards an aggressive subtype. Thus, the identification of indolent patients at high risk for progression to advanced disease remains a major challenge in the management of ATL patients. Patients and Methods We have performed an integrated genomic analysis of a retrospective cohort of 61 ATL patients originating from Africa and the Caribbean area. This was achieved by targeted deep sequencing (TDS), SNP array analysis, RNA sequencing and high throughput sequencing (HTS) based mapping of proviral integration sites. In order to explore the potential contribution of the temporal acquisition of driver mutations to progression, we analyzed 15 patients with longitudinal samples, who either relapsed after achieving complete remission or progressed from an indolent to an aggressive subtype. Results Sixty-one ATL patients were analyzed at diagnosis. Fifteen had an indolent (smoldering or chronic) subtype and 48 had an aggressive (39 acute and 9 lymphoma) subtype. A total of 248 somatic mutations in 48 genes were identified. The most commonly mutated genes were CCR4 (n=23, 38 %), PLCG1 (n=17, 28%), PRKCB (n=13, 21%), CARD11 (n=13, 21%), TBL1XR1 (n=11, 18%), TP53 (n=11, 18%), FAS (n=10, 16%), GATA3 (n=10, 16%), NOTCH1 (n=9, 15%), CSNK2B (n=9, 15%) , STAT3 (n=8, 13%), RHOA (n=7, 12%) and VAV1 (n=7, 12%). Genomic mutations were clustered in four main pathways. Forty-four (72%) patients harbored mutations affecting the TCR/NF-KB pathway (CD28, PLCG1, CARD11, PRKCB, CBLB, IRF4, CSNK1A1, FYN, RHOA, VAV1). Twenty-eight (46%) harbored mutations affecting the T-cell trafficking pathway (CCR4, CCR7, GP183). Eighteen (29%) showed mutations affecting genes involved in immune escape (FAS, HLA-B, B2M, CD58). Sixteen (26%) showed mutations in genes involved in cell-cycle regulation (TP53, POT1 and RB1). In addition, 31 (50%) showed mutations in genes involved in regulation of transcription and/or epigenetic and 13 (21%) in the JAK/STAT signaling pathway. The mean number of mutations per sample at diagnosis was higher in aggressive subtypes than in indolent forms: 4.761 (IC95%=4.049-5.472) versus 1.800 (IC95%=0.9071-2.693). This difference was mainly due to a higher number of genetic alterations located in the TCR/NF-κB pathway: 39/46 (85%) patients showed at least one activating mutation in the TCR/NF-κB pathway in the aggressive group compared to 5/15 (33%) in the indolent group (p=0.003). The analysis of longitudinal samples from patients who relapsed after a remission period showed two different patterns: (i) relapse with an identical malignant clone in terms of proviral integration but with additional somatic alterations mainly in two main pathways (immune escape and TCR/NF-KB pathway) and (ii) relapse with a clone switch and systematic damaging somatic mutations in the TP53 locus. The analysis of longitudinal samples with a deep sequencing approach from patients who progressed from an indolent to an aggressive subtype revealed a subgroup of indolent forms that carried activating mutations in the TCR/κB pathway clustered in four genes (CARD11, PRKCB, PLCG1 and VAV1), not only at a clonal but also at a subclonal level, subsequently increasing to clonal level upon progression. Moreover, the presence of such mutations either at a clonal or at a subclonal level was associated with a shorter progression time to aggressive subtype compared to other indolent forms (median 18.2 months versus not reached; p=0.0005). Conclusion This study defines the genomic landscape of ATL in an Afro-Caribbean population, which is comparable to that of ATL in the Japanese population. Furthermore, the longitudinal study revealed a new indolent ATL subgroup based on a specific oncogenic architecture associated with a shorter progression time. Our findings may be useful for clinicians to identify patients with an indolent subtype at high risk for progression to an aggressive subtype. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Cruz, César A. "Henry Klumb: Puerto Rico’s critical modernist." Architectural Research Quarterly 23, no. 1 (March 2019): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135519000095.
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In February 1944 a thirty-nine-year-old itinerant architect named Heinrich ‘Henry’ Klumb [1] (1905–1984), moved to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico for what was supposed to be a short-term, public works job with the island’s provincial government, that is, a territorial government that had been established and was largely supervised by the American federal government. At the time of his arrival on the island, Klumb was a one-time German immigrant, a former protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn’s occasional design and business partner during the mid-to-late 1930s, and a moderately successful designer of a variety of projects and building types. These early projects and building types included residences, prototype prefabricated buildings and houses, museum exhibits, furniture pieces, and a number of housing and urban master plans. Over the next forty years he would emerge as Puerto Rico’s most locally well-known and prolific modern architect. His major successes on the island consisted of his public works, university buildings, churches, residences, and office buildings. Outside of Puerto Rico, his association with Frank Lloyd Wright has also generated a measure of interest.
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Young, Robert J. C. "The Dislocations of Cultural Translation." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 132, no. 1 (January 2017): 186–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2017.132.1.186.
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The title The Location of Culture suggests that the book's author, Homi K. Bhabha, places an overriding importance on a culture's spatial and geographic situation. Lest Bhabha's readers get too fixated on culture's site and locality, however, the title's emphasis on place is soon qualified by an epigraph from the book's most-cited author, Frantz Fanon, that emphasizes temporality: “The architecture of this work is rooted in the temporal. Every human problem must be considered from the standpoint of time” (qtd. in Bhabha xiv). So, while culture must be located, the architecture of The Location of Culture is rooted in the temporal. The place and time of its moments of production are affirmed throughout its essays with a wealth of contemporary references and opening comments like “In Britain, in the 1980s …” (27). No book of theory is more self-consciously embedded in its own space and time. The Location of Culture, published in 1994, is a very English book, written from within the political, cultural, and intellectual world of the London of the 1980s and early 1990s, in which migrant activists from the Caribbean and South Asia such as Bhabha, Salman Rushdie, and Stuart Hall were challenging the verities of a long-established, socialist, masculinist, English intellectual and political culture. The brilliant innovation of The Location of Culture was to create a new language, a new articulation and understanding of minority positions—which is why the response to it has been so overwhelming, from academics, artists, and many others. The work that went into The Location of Culture was intimately related to Bhabha's own milieu and time: the book is the product of his decennium mirabile in London.
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Kaup, Monika. "“¡Vaya Papaya!”: Cuban Baroque and Visual Culture in Alejo Carpentier, Ricardo Porro, and Ramón Alejandro." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 1 (January 2009): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.156.
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Cuba assumes a special place in the genealogy of the latin American Baroque and its twentieth-century recuperation, ongoing in our twenty-first century—the neobaroque. As Alejo Carpentier has pointed out (and as architectural critics confirm), the Caribbean lacks a monumental architectural baroque heritage comparable with that of the mainland, such as the hyperornate Churrigueresque ultrabaroque of central Mexico and Peru (fig. 1). Nevertheless, it was two Cuban intellectuals, Alejo Carpentier and José Lezama Lima, who spearheaded a new turn in neobaroque discourse after World War II by popularizing the notion of an insurgent, mestizo New World baroque unique to the Americas. Carpentier and Lezama Lima are the key authors of the notion of a decolonizing American baroque, a baroque that expressed contraconquista (counterconquest), as Lezama punned, countering the familiar identification of the baroque with the repressive ideology of the Counter-Reformation and its allies, the imperial Catholic Iberian states (80). Lezama and Carpentier argue that the imported Iberian state baroque was transformed into the transculturated, syncretic New World baroque at the hands of the (often anonymous) native artisans who continued to work under the Europeans, grafting their own indigenous traditions onto the iconography of the Catholic baroque style. The New World baroque is a product of the confluence (however unequal) of Iberian, pre-Columbian, and African cultures during the peaceful seventeenth century and into the eighteenth in Spain's and Portugal's territories in the New World. The examples studied by Lezama and Carpentier are all from the monumental baroque sculpture and architecture of Mexico, the Andes, and Brazil's Minas Gerais province: the work of the Brazilian mulatto artist O Aleijadinho (Antônio Francisco Lisboa [1738–1814]; see fig. 2 in Zamora in this issue) and the indigenous Andean artist José Kondori (dates unknown; see fig. 1 in Zamora), central Mexico's Church of San Francisco Xavier Tepotzotlán (fig. 1), and the folk baroque Church of Santa María Tonantzintla (see fig. 3 in Zamora), to mention a few landmarks and names.
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Chadee, Aaron, Indrajit Ray, and Xsitaaz Chadee. "Systemic Issues Influencing Technical Certainty in Social Housing Programmes in a Small Island Developing State." Buildings 11, no. 2 (February 12, 2021): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11020065.
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Underestimating costs in major public sector social infrastructure development projects is a highly contested and problematic issue. Several gaps exist in the identification of root causes of cost overruns. Behavioural science academics advocate political and psychological explanations as root causes for cost overruns against technical factors, such as errors and omissions by engineers, practitioners and scientists. Most studies in this field primarily concentrate on developed countries. Although some studies have been undertaken in developing countries, very little attention is given to the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This paper presents a case study of public sector social housing construction programmes in a Caribbean SIDS to further understand the root causes of cost overruns. Primary and secondary data spanning across two different political cycles were collected to test the concepts of whether political influences or technical influences are the true root causes of cost overruns. It was found that political explanations based on the psycho-strategic concept are the leading sources of cost risks on the final estimated contract price. This study strengthens the argument and discusses how strategic decisions emanating from the political directorate outweigh and influence informed technical decisions formulated during the planning stages.
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Kline, Katherine. "Contribution of older urban residents." Journal of Public Space 3, no. 1 (April 30, 2018): 187–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/jps.v3i1.329.
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UN-Habitat’s biennial World Urban Forum (WUF9) took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this year from 7-13 February. Following 18 months after Habitat III, its theme appropriately focused on “Cities 2030, Cities for All”.I participated as the co-chair of the General Assembly of Partners (GAP) official civil society group for older persons. Given very limited resources, we organized several panels with others: an official 2 hour Older Persons Roundtable; one with GAP Persons with Disabilities on accessibility and universal design; another representing older women as part of the Women’s Assembly; a fourth contributing the civil society perspective to one by Business & Industry; and a fifth organized by City Space Architecture focusing on the importance of safe and accessible public spaces which can reduce isolation faced by many older urban residents.Urbanisation and population ageing are century defining demographic trends. Over 500 million urban residents are older people. Yet cities everywhere are failing to address the changes brought about by global population ageing with increasing inequality and insecurity. Physical, social and economic barriers prevent older people in particular from fully enjoying their rights and living in dignity and safety in cities. By 2030, older persons are expected to account for over 25 percent of the population in Europe and northern America, 17 percent in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and six percent in Africa. Over half the ageing population, 289 million, currently lives in low- and middle-income countries, and is increasingly concentrated in urban areas. Older persons are the fastest growing population group globally, expected to reach 22% by 2050 (UNDESA 2017). In 2015, 58% of the world’s people aged 60 and over resided in urban areas, up from 50% in 2000.
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Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Isabelle M. Côté, Andrew R. Watkinson, and Jennifer A. Gill. "Coral identity underpins architectural complexity on Caribbean reefs." Ecological Applications 21, no. 6 (September 2011): 2223–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/10-1563.1.
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Stucchi, Leonardo, Daniele Fabrizio Bignami, Daniele Bocchiola, Davide Del Curto, Andrea Garzulino, and Renzo Rosso. "Assessment of Climate-Driven Flood Risk and Adaptation Supporting the Conservation Management Plan of a Heritage Site. The National Art Schools of Cuba." Climate 9, no. 2 (January 23, 2021): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli9020023.
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This work illustrates the contribution of flood risk assessment and adaptation to set up a conservation management plan for a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture. Case study is the iconic complex, internationally known as the National Art Schools of Cuba. It consists of five buildings built in the early 1960s within a park of Habana next to the Caribbean Sea. The path of the river (Rio Quibù) crossing the estate was modified to fit the landscape design. The complex has then been exposed to the risk of flooding. The School of Ballet, located in a narrow meander of the river, slightly upstream of a bridge and partially obstructing the flow, is particularly subject to frequent flash floods from the Rio Quibù, and it needs urgent restoration. Keeping ISA Modern is a project aimed at preserving the Schools complex. Based upon in situ surveys on the Rio Quibù and local area measurements during 2019, numerical modelling, and previous work by the Cuban National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, we pursued a flood risk analysis for the area, and a preliminary analysis of available risk reduction strategies. Using HEC-RAS 2D software for hydraulic modelling, we evaluated the flooded area and the hydraulic conditions (flow depth, velocity) for floods with given return periods. Our results show that SB is a building most subject to flooding, with high levels of risk. Defense strategies as designed by Cuban authorities may include a (new) wall around the School of Ballet and widening of the river channel, with high impact and cost, although not definitive. Temporary, light, permanent, and low cost/impact flood proofing structures may be used with similar effectiveness. We demonstrate that relatively little expensive hydraulic investigation may aid flood modelling and risk assessment in support of conservation projects for historically valuable sites. This may support brainstorming and the selection of (low to high cost) adaptation and risk reduction measures in the coastal areas of Cuba in response to ever increasing extreme storms and sea level rise controlling flood dynamics under transient climate change.
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Andel, Joan D., H. E. Coomans, Rene Berg, James N. Sneddon, Thomas Crump, H. Beukers, M. Heins, et al. "Book Reviews." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 147, no. 4 (1991): 516–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003185.
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- Joan D. van Andel, H.E. Coomans, Building up the the future from the past; Studies on the architecture and historic monuments in the Dutch Caribbean, Zutphen: De Walburg Pers, 1990, 268 pp., M.A. Newton, M. Coomans-Eustatia (eds.) - Rene van den Berg, James N. Sneddon, Studies in Sulawesi linguistics, Part I, 1989. NUSA, Linguistic studies of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, volume 31. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. - Thomas Crump, H. Beukers, Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, Publications for the Netherlands Association of Japanese studies No. 5, 1991., A.M. Luyendijk-Elshout, M.E. van Opstall (eds.) - M. Heins, Kees P. Epskamp, Theatre in search of social change; The relative significance of different theatrical approaches. Den Haag: CESO Paperback no. 7, 1989. - Rudy De Iongh, Rainer Carle, Opera Batak; Das Wandertheater der Toba-Batak in Nord Sumatra. Schauspiele zur Währung kultureller Identität im nationalen Indonesischen Kontext. Veröffentlichungen des Seminars fur Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität Hamburg, Band 15/1 & 15/2 (2 Volumes), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1990. - P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Birgit Rottger-Rossler, Rang und Ansehen bei den Makassar von Gowa (Süd-Sulawesi, Indonesien), Kölner Ethnologische Studien, Band 15. Dietrich Reimar Verlag, Berlin, 1989. 332 pp. text, notes, glossary, literature. - John Kleinen, Vo Nhan Tri, Vietnam’s economic policy since 1975. Singapore: ASEAN Economic research unit, Institute of Southeast Asian studies, 1990. xii + 295 pp. - H.M.J. Maier, David Banks, From class to culture; Social conscience in Malay novels since independence, Yale, 1987. - Th. C. van der Meij, Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia; Tradition, trade and transformation. Melbourne/Oxford/Auckland/New York: Australian National Gallery/Oxford University Press. - A.E. Mills, Elinor Ochs, Culture and language development, Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language No. 6, Cambridge University Press, 227 + 10 pp. - Denis Monnerie, Frederick H. Damon, Death rituals and life in the societies of the Kula Ring, Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989. 280 pp., maps, figs., bibliogr., Roy Wagner (eds.) - Denis Monnerie, Frederick H. Damon, From Muyuw to the Trobriands; Transformations along the northern side of the Kula ring, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1990. xvi + 285 pp., maps, figs., illus., apps., bibliogr., index. - David S. Moyer, Jeremy Boissevain, Dutch dilemmas; Anthropologists look at the Netherlands, Assen/Maastricht: Van Gorcum, 1989, v + 186 pp., Jojada Verrips (eds.) - Gert Oostindie, B.H. Slicher van Bath, Indianen en Spanjaarden; Een ontmoeting tussen twee werelden, Latijns Amerika 1500-1800. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1989. 301 pp. - Parakitri, C.A.M. de Jong, Kompas 1965-1985; Een algemene krant met een katholieke achtergrond binnen het religieus pluralisme van Indonesie, Kampen: Kok, 1990. - C.A. van Peursen, J. van Baal, Mysterie als openbaring. Utrecht: ISOR, 1990. - Harry A. Poeze, R.A. Longmire, Soviet relations with South-East Asia; An historical survey. London-New York: Kegan Paul International, 1989, x + 176 pp. - Harry A. Poeze, Ann Swift, The road to Madiun; The Indonesian communist uprising of 1948. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (Monograph series 69), 1989, xii + 116 pp. - Alex van Stipriaan, Cornelis Ch. Goslinga, The Dutch in the Caribbean and in Surinam 1791/5 - 1942, Assen/Maastricht: Van Gorcum, 1990. xii + 812 pp. - A. Teeuw, Keith Foulcher, Social commitment in literature and the arts: The Indonesian ‘Institute of People’s culture’ 1950-1965, Clayton, Victoria: Southeast Asian studies, Monash University (Centre of Southeast Asian studies), 1986, vii + 234 pp. - Elly Touwen-Bouwsma, T. Friend, The blue-eyed enemy; Japan against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945. New Jersey: Princeton University press, 1988, 325 pp.
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Silverio-Fernandez, Manuel Alexander, Suresh Renukappa, and Subashini Suresh. "Evaluating critical success factors for implementing smart devices in the construction industry." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 26, no. 8 (September 16, 2019): 1625–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-02-2018-0085.
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Purpose The decentralisation of information and high rate of mobile content access in the construction industry provides an ideal scenario for improvement of processes via the implementation of the paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT). Smart devices are considered as the objects interconnected in the IoT; therefore, they play a fundamental role in the implementation of digital solutions during the execution of construction projects. The purpose of this paper is to assess the critical factors for a successful implementation of smart devices in the construction industry. Design/methodology/approach An empirical study was performed in the Dominican Republic. This country, located at the heart of the Caribbean, presents an economy that strongly relies on the construction industry. Following a systematic approach, a qualitative data collection and analysis was performed based on semi-structured interviews and content analysis to professionals of construction companies in the Dominican Republic, enquiring the concept of smart devices and critical success factors for implementing the devices in the industry. Findings The key success factors obtained from the contestants were leadership, technology awareness, company size, usability of proposed solution, cost of implementation and interoperability. Originality/value This paper provides information to clients of the construction sector regarding the benefits of embedding smart devices into their business activities. Furthermore, this study provides a better understanding of the key factors to be considered by construction organisations when embedding smart devices into their projects. This study also provides recommendations for distinct stakeholders of the construction sector, such as policy makers, clients and technology consultants. Policy makers should especially consider factors such as technology awareness and leadership to develop the right policies for the integration of the IoT in construction projects. Technology consultants should be aware of the latest case studies of successful implementation of smart devices and IoT systems in the world in order to adapt and implement smart devices and IoT in their projects.
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Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Jennifer A. Gill, Isabelle M. Côté, and Andrew R. Watkinson. "Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276, no. 1669 (June 10, 2009): 3019–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0339.
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