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Planck, Charles F. (Charles Francis) 1966. "Transit marketing : strategies for San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10140.
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Maldonado-Torres, Joaquin. "Historical research and documentation of the grounds and gardens of La Casa Blanca, San Juan De Puerto Rico." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/543768.
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La Casa Blanca (The White House) is the old fortress house of Juan Ponce de Leon’s family, located in the city of San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico also known as Old San Juan. The house was originally built in the early 1500s as one of the first permanent constructions on the islet of San Juan. Both the house and its grounds have undergone several physical changes through their almost 500 years of existence. The house (which today is a museum) has been restored and documented, including the surrounding buildings which were built during the 17th and 18th Centuries and which form the Casa Blanca building complex.Today several garden areas exist on the grounds of Casa Blanca. These gardens have the potential to enhance the site more than they do presently, not only in the aesthetic experience that the visitor to Casa Blanca could have because of the beauty of the place, but also in the experience of history and legend associated with Juan Ponce de Leon.Lamentably, with the possible exception of the Hispano-Moorish garden located next to the central patio of Casa Blanca, the remaining garden areas have not been formally documented for purposes of correct design development or so that the visitor may appreciate and understand their history. In this creative project the author has documented all the information available on Casa Blanca and its gardens from written sources, plans, and from oral interviews obtained in Puerto Rico and the United States.The original intent of the author was not only to document the gardens and grounds of Casa Blanca, but also to create a restoration/rehabilitation design for the best use of this area. This scheme would be in accordance with their historic, legendary, and aesthetic relationship to Casa Blanca and Old San Juan as part of the total cultural heritage of Puerto Rico. Instead, this research of Casa Blanca's gardens' history in itself became the focus of the creative project due to the large amount of time and effort necessary to locate and compile the information. A rehabilitation design plan was not possible in the time frame for this project. However, this investigation opened new areas of study, as it dealt with the overall unrecorded garden history of Puerto Rico which was essential to document before a restoration/rehabilitation plan could be made. The author hopes that this study, as the first documentation of a Puerto Rican garden, will initiate the recording of the total garden history of Puerto Rico.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Ferrer-Rodriguez, Roberto. "An artisans' marketplace in old San Juan, Puerto Rico." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3344.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Parmegiani, Sebastiano 1962. "Land use planning in the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69420.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 245-248).
This thesis addresses the question whether and how a large transportation infrastructure, in this case a port, can co-exist with a large metropolitan area. The case study analyzed is the redevelopment of the port and waterfront of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The first part reviews how the undergoing changes in the shipping and cruise industry affect ports and cities. It also reviews the developments currently proposed along the waterfront of San Juan. The second part develops a Trip Generation Distribution Computerized Model. This model proposes a methodology to analyze the traffic impact the proposed developments have on the overall roadway network. The third part constitutes an Urban Design and Land Use proposal for a district of the San Juan metropolitan area, Isla Grande. The conceptual transit-oriented development proposal shows a way to accommodate growth that benefits the city and the port, while contributing to alleviate traffic problems. As a contribution to enhance communication between all the stakeholders, a Web Site is developed as part of this thesis. Key Words: Puerto Rico, Port Planning, Cruise Industry, Waterfronts, Traffic Modeling, Urban Transportation, Urban Design, Land Use Planning, Transit Oriented Development.
by Sebastiano Parmegiani.
M.C.P.
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Bird-Ortiz, Nianti. "Paper recycling mill a sustainable education center in San Juan, Puerto Rico /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3345.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Crowe, Monica Lynn. "Rise of Public Works and Sanitation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1765-1823." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/592.
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The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate and understand the growth of public works as part of urban development in San Juan, Puerto Rico, between 1765 and 1823. In San Juan, attaining basic provisions was complicated by distinctive circumstances such as the increasing population, administrative decisions, and financial limitations. This thesis draws from demography, medicine, urban studies, and primary documents to understand how the changes in San Juan’s established political, economic, demographic, and environmental systems allowed for the growth of public works to support the city’s population. With the introduction of economic and military Bourbon Reforms, the existing colonial system fractured, collapsing in the first decade of the nineteenth century from financial burdens, internal infrastructure decay, and the abdication of the Spanish king. Imperial loyalty and intra-monarchial attention to the general public altered Puerto Rico’s imperial role, establishing a new system that allowed public work and sanitation to thrive.
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Chang, Cybele T. Z. (Cybele Tsai Zin) 1973. "Improving jitney service quality : an appropriate governance model for San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65063.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-160).
San Juan, Puerto Rico, like many North American cities, has turned to rail lines as a solution to the mounting traffic congestion threatening the urban environment. However, a rail system must rely on other transit modes to provide feeder services in order to expand its reach and broaden its customer base. This requires intermodal integration. The challenge facing the future success of Tren Urbano, the new rail system projected to open in the next two years, is the integration of the publicos. The publico is the owner operated jitney service indigenous to Puerto Rico that the government anticipates will offer crucial feeder services to Tren Urbano. For intermodal integration to succeed, publicos must offer comparable service quality. Unfortunately, the service quality of publico transit is poor as a consequence of the long-term decline of the publico industry. Therefore, the goal of the government is to improve publico service quality so it is comparable with the rest of the transit system, while recognizing the unique owner operator quality of the industry. This thesis examines four different jitney systems in North America. The study documents the development of the jitney service, how different cities govern jitney operators, and what affect the governance structure has on the quality of service. The purpose of this study is to determine what kind of governance structure leads to a high quality of jitney service. The study also examines what other factors contribute to high quality service. The ultimate goal is to apply the findings to San Juan, Puerto Rico in order to define future publico reforms. The case studies illustrate that North American jitney services all rely on hybrid governance models, consisting of government controls and self-regulating mechanisms. The study suggests that a hybrid governance structure that is based on cooperation between operators and government regulators leads to superior service quality. However, service quality is not merely a function of governance structure. Service quality also depends on the profitability of the jitney service, institutional strength, and the context of the industry. In a highly profitable setting, industry actors will spontaneously mobilize and provide a high quality of service. Consequently, the recommendations from this study examine ways of improving the profitability of the publico industry in order to improve the quality of service. In an unprofitable environment, the government must take the lead in developing other strategies to encourage service quality improvements. The recommendations in this study also suggests that the government proactively assist the publico industry improve service quality though various institutional and governance strategies.
by Cybele T.Z. Chang.
M.C.P.
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Zhang, Guoping 1968. "Laboratory characterization of a highly weathered old alluvium in San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8295.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.Includes bibliographical references.
The old alluvium underlying much of metropolitan San Juan was formed in early Pleistocene and has undergone substantial post-depositional weathering in the tropical climate of Puerto Rico, resulting in a special combination of soil mineralogy and structure, with very unusual engineering properties. The soil mineralogy was determined both qualitatively and quantitatively by a series of analytical techniques, consisting of X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, X-ray fluorescence, and chemical analyses including cation exchange capacity (CEC), soil pH, and selective chemical dissolutions (SCD). Results show that the old alluvium contains: (1) two most weathering resistant primary minerals: quartz and orthoclase; (2) kaolinite and smectites as major clay minerals; and (3) Fe-oxides (goethite and hematite) as special fine-grained minerals, which give the soil distinct red, brown, and yellow coloration. The subsequent quantitative analysis yields high accuracy results, such that the identified mineral phases account for 94-95% of the bulk material. Characterization of soil microstructure also used a variety of techniques including environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM), slaking tests, CEC, and SCD of Fe-oxides. The results reveal an aggregate structure comprising groups of clay platelets, which each consist of clay particles associated with face-to-face contact. Cementation and aggregation agents are positively identified by SCD as Fe-oxides, which form coatings over clay platelets and aggregates, and bridge bonding between aggregates. These results were confirmed by slake tests in water and glycerol.
(cont.) Index properties vary due to the microstructure. Particle size distribution and Atterberg limits are affected by remolding energy and drying conditions, resulting in difficulties for soil classification. The combination of mineralogy and structure, cause the consolidation behavior to differ from conventional sedimentary soil behavior in the following aspects: (1) the coefficient of consolidation decreases by four orders of magnitude as the sample is compressed to 300ksc; (2) the swelling strains increase significantly with maximum past consolidation pressure; (3) the intact soil exhibits an exceptionally high yield stress ([sigma][subscript]y [approximately equal to] 8ksc); and (4) vertical consolidation strains can be completely recovered upon unloading when samples are pre-loaded above the yield stress. Triaxial compression and extension shear tests on intact samples suggest that the intact shear strength can be described by a conventional Mohr-Coulomb criterion with an isotropic cohesive strength component. The current conceptual models of microstructure offer a framework for developing realistic constitutive models to describe the complex mechanical behavior of this complex residual soil.
by Guoping Zhang.
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Toro, Brenda. "Food safety knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of restaurants employees in San Juan, Puerto Rico /." Search for this dissertation online, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.
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Rodríguez, Daniel Andrés. "Developing a system architecture for intelligent transportation systems with application to San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10850.
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Cabré, Alberto J. (Alberto Javier). "Light and culture--a market place in the Old City of San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65461.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.Includes bibliographical references.
Issues: Regional architecture vs. globalization.
by Alberto J. Cabré.
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Santiago, Carlos A. "A building system: an alternative to the urban sprawl in contemporary metropolitan San Juan." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53302.
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The intent of this thesis is to develop a concept for a structural and enclosure building system that will be applicable to the typical existing housing units in San Juan, P. R. The system will respond to criteria based on environmental, socio-cultural and architectural concerns.Master of Architecture
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Boesch, Timothy Joseph. "Electronic toll collection : a summary and analysis of current practices with application to San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41001.
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Morales, Marisela 1977. "Project infrastructure development case studies: the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge and the Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80959.
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Crane, Brian D. "Colono ware and criollo ware pottery from Charleston, South Carolina and San Juan, Puerto Rico in comparative perspective." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Coll_Diss_03.
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Diaz-Garayua, Jose R. "Majority’s Perception of Minority Groups vis-à-vis Housing Values within the San Juan, MSA: A Local Variation Approach." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1228166005.
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Walker, Leslie Paul Jr. "Narrating Climate Change at the San Juan National Historic Site at the Community Level." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5792.
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While the National Park Service is charged with interpreting and preserving areas designated as park resources, they must also manage environmental issues such as erosion resulting from climate change. This research sets out to narrate how Palo Seco, Puerto Rico, a neighboring community of the San Juan National Historic Site, perceives similar environmental conditions and motivations for addressing these issues. My research sits at the intersection between the park’s charter and understanding community implications of environmental changes that affect local heritage. Using Authorized Heritage Discourse and environmental justice as theoretical frameworks, I suggest that the National Park Service should include the observations of climate change from Palo Seco community to broaden Park Service’s understanding and preservation policies. I also recommend the National Park Service utilize cultural resource management guidelines to develop programs that facilitate collaborative research projects with the Palo Seco community to not only address mutual issues of climate changes but also document local heritage knowledge that can enhance the Park’s interpretation and preservation efforts.
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Pizarro, Fernando. "Cultural visualization through architecture." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003242.
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Collazo, Carmen D. "The effect of after-school music programs in at-risk students' self-esteem and social skills in San Juan, Puerto Rico." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2405.
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The purpose of this study was to examine and expand upon the role the Programas de Orquestas Sinfonicas Juveniles (POSJU) experiences play in self-esteem and social skills. The research took place in Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza School, one of ten POSJU centers, located in the San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thirty-eight students (N=38) aged 7 to 17 participated in this study. Participants rated their self-esteem and social skills using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and the Social Skills Competence Checklist (SSCC). No significant differences between pre- and post-evaluations on RSES and. SSCC were found. For additional information, teachers evaluated all participants using the Teacher Student Report (TSR). Significant differences were found across the construct of social skills, but not self-esteem. Information regarding the POSJU after school program was collected from parents through a Parent Questionnaire Report (PQR). Overall, parents’ responses towards the program show satisfaction with POSJU.
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Flores, María Isabel Martín. "The Cognitive Ability and Learning Style of Students Enrolled in Home Economics Occupational Courses in San Juan and Bayamon, Puerto Rico /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1387447574.
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Ruiz, Zanon Francisco. "Manuel Verdeguer Beltrán (Valencia, 1908-San Juan de Puerto Rico,1988) Trayectoria musical y aportaciones a la escuela moderna del contrabajo." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/152484.
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[ES] Manuel Verdeguer Beltrán es el contrabajista español más relevante del siglo XX, con un gran reconocimiento en el continente americano.
Nacido en 1908 en Valencia, comenzó tocando el violoncello y posteriormente se consagró como solista y pedagogo del contrabajo, elogiado, entre otros por los maestros Lamote de Grignon y Joaquín Turina.
El estudio de la época en la que desarrolló su carrera artística en España nos ha permitido descubrir la crisis económica causada a los intérpretes por la desaparición del cine mudo, así como en el conocimiento del reglamento que regía las condiciones laborales de los músicos.
Desempeñó el puesto de solista de contrabajo en la Orquesta Municipal de Valencia y de la Orquesta Nacional de Conciertos en el periodo de la república. Posteriormente ingresó en la Orquesta Nacional de España, creada en la época franquista.
En 1953 abandonó España para ocupar los puestos de solista de la Orquesta Nacional de Colombia y de profesor del Conservatorio de Bogotá. Posteriormente se trasladó a Venezuela como solista de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela y profesor de la Escuela Superior de Música "José Ángel Lamas" de Venezuela. Invitado por el violonchelista Pau Casals fue nombrado catedrático del Conservatorio de Puerto Rico y solista de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Bogotá.
Estrenó el conocido concierto de Tubin para contrabajo y orquesta realizando la primera grabación de dicho concierto
No tuvo discípulos en España; pero sí que los tuvo en América, creando una prestigiosa escuela del contrabajo.[EN] Manuel Verdeguer Beltrán is the most relevant Spanish double bass player of the 20th century, with great recognition in the Americas. Born in 1908 in Valencia, he began playing the violoncello and subsequently consecrated himself as a soloist and pedagogue of the double bass, praised among others by the teachers Lamote de Grignon and Joaquín Turina The study of the time in which he developed his artistic career in Spain has allowed us to discover the economic crisis caused to the interpreters by the disappearance of silent films, as well as in the knowledge of the regulation that governed the working conditions of musicians. He played the double bass soloist position in the Municipal Orchestra of Valencia and the National Concert Orchestra in the period of the Republic. Later he joined the National Orchestra of Spain created in the Franco era. In 1953, he left Spain to occupy the positions of soloist of the National Orchestra of Colombia and professor at the Conservatory of Bogotá. Later he moved to Venezuela as soloist of the Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and professor of the Higher School of Music "José Ángel Lamas" of Venezuela. Invited by cellist Pau Casals, he was appointed Professor of the Conservatory of Puerto Rico and soloist of the Symphony Orchestra of Bogotá. He premiered the famous Tubin concert for double bass and orchestra performing the first recording of that concert He had no disciples in Spain; but he did have them in America, creating a prestigious double bass school.
[CA] Manuel Verdeguer Beltrán és el contrabaixista espanyol més rellevant del segle XX, amb un gran reconeixement en el continent americà. Nascut en 1908 a València, va començar tocant el violoncel i posteriorment es va consagrar com a solista i pedagog del contrabaix, elogiat, entre altres pels mestres Lamote de Grignon i Joaquín Turina. L'estudi de l'època en la qual va desenvolupar la seua carrera artística a Espanya ens ha permès descobrir la crisi econòmica causada als intèrprets per la desaparició del cinema mut, així com en el coneixement del reglament que regia les condicions laborals dels músics. Va exercir el lloc de solista de contrabaix de l'Orquestra Municipal de València i de l'Orquestra Nacional de Concerts en el període de la república. Posteriorment va ingressar en l'Orquestra Nacional d'Espanya, creada en l'època franquista. En 1953 va abandonar Espanya per a ocupar els llocs de solista de l'Orquestra Nacional de Colòmbia i de professor del Conservatori de Bogotà. Posteriorment es va traslladar a Veneçuela com a solista de l'Orquestra Simfònica de Veneçuela i professor de l'Escola Superior de Música "José Ángel Lamas" de Veneçuela. Convidat pel violoncellista Pau Casals va ser nomenat catedràtic del Conservatori de Puerto Rico i solista de l'Orquestra Simfònica de Bogotà. Va estrenar el conegut concert de Tubin per a contrabaix i orquestra realitzant el primer enregistrament d'aquest concert No va tindre deixebles a Espanya; però sí que els va tindre a Amèrica, creant una prestigiosa escola del contrabaix.
Ruiz Zanon, F. (2020). Manuel Verdeguer Beltrán (Valencia, 1908-San Juan de Puerto Rico,1988) Trayectoria musical y aportaciones a la escuela moderna del contrabajo [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/152484
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Sifres, Fernandez Vincent. "Poderes, sanidad y marginacion| El colera morbo en la ciudad de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico a mediados del siglo XIX." Thesis, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3708252.
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Esta tesis doctoral gira en torno a las medidas disciplinarias que se establecieron antes, durante y después del embate de la epidemia de cólera en la ciudad amurallada de San Juan, Puerto Rico, entre los años 1854 y 1856, con miras a resaltar las nociones del poder, biopolítica, sanidad, higiene, marginación y desarrollo urbano. El análisis exhaustivo de las Actas del Cabildo de la ciudad de San Juan fue fundamental para determinar cuán preparadas estaban las autoridades civiles, militares y sanitarias durante el periodo de estudio. A través de su revisión, se observa cómo los cabilderos, atendían el problema de la presencia de los bohíos en la Capital, considerados como focos de contagio y propagación de enfermedades. Desde antes que llegara la epidemia de cólera a San Juan, las autoridades buscaban la manera de eliminar los bohíos existentes dentro de la ciudad amurallada. El uso de una biopolítica por las autoridades, entiéndase como “la política de la salud del pueblo”, justificaron y señalaron que estas viviendas representaban ser un peligro para la población sanjuanera. Algunos historiadores afirman que fallecieron aproximadamente 500 personas de diferentes “castas” en la ciudad de San Juan por el cólera. Según los datos obtenidos del Libro de Defunciones de la Catedral de San Juan los resultados son distintos. Toda persona fallecida por la epidemia de cólera fue enterrada en fosas comunes llamadas cementerios colerientos. La hipótesis planteada durante esta investigación establece que la epidemia de cólera fue el agente catalítico para crear pánico en la ciudad de San Juan y así ejercer la presión necesaria para eliminar los bohíos y a los habitantes considerados como focos de enfermedades contagiosas.
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Parikh, Ami 1976. "Determining relationships and policies that transit properties have with regional employers to increase ridership : a case of the Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69421.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-128).
Employer-based transportation demand management measures are increasingly seen by transportation planners as one of the potential means to manage the demand for private transport. These measures are essentially a comprehensive package of incentives and disincentives targeted at employees to encourage high occupancy vehicle commute as opposed to single occupancy vehicle travel. This research examines the composition of employer transportation plans and their application with respect to encouraging public transportation ridership. Drawing on the experiences of employer transportation plans in three cities - St. Louis, Missouri, San Diego, California and the Longwood Medical Area, Boston, Massachusetts, this research argues that there are a number of preconditions which will make an employer transportation plan more likely to succeed in its aim of reducing the number of people who drive alone to work. These include providing strong management support to the program, providing adequate resources to the program - both financial and other, public-private coalition development whereby employers can partner with transit properties to build system ridership by attracting choice riders, an aggressive employee transportation coordinator and providing appropriate incentives and disincentives to employees. Other key considerations are the availability of parking, the cost of parking and access to a high-quality public transportation system. Finally, this thesis recommends an implementation strategy for establishing employer transportation plans in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In response to the increasing traffic congestion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a mass transit system, the Tren Urbano, is currently being constructed. There is a need to resort to travel demand management measures in San Juan because of severe traffic congestion. The arrival of Tren Urbano provides many opportunities for employers to partner with regional transportation service providers in building the transit system ridership by implementing employer supported travel demand management measures at the worksite. Taking the examples of two large employers, the Banco Popular and the Centro Medico, in San Juan, this research outlines an execution strategy for employer transportation plans in San Juan.
by Ami Parikh.
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Rivera, Alicea Paul Anthony. "Nuevas rutas y movilidad posfordista en el espacio turístico caribeño. Estudios de caso: ciudades patrimonios de la humanidad con sistemas de murallas y fortificaciones españolas de los siglos XVI al XIX: San Juan de Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Cartagena de Indias y La Habana." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/112157.
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Una propuesta de transición para el espacio turístico caribeño basado en nuevas rutas de movilidad postfordista para el Caribe español basado en las cuatro ciudades patrimonio de la humanidad con sistemas de murallas y fortificaciones de los siglos XVI al XIX
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Davila, Ana Luisa. "Le planning familial à Porto Rico : étude d'une communauté de San Juan aux revenus modestes." Paris 5, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA054112.
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Depuis les années vingt, des mesures ont été adoptées à Porto Rico, en vue d'abaisser le taux de natalité. Le présent travail situe, dans sa première partie, les politiques de contrôle des naissances, dans le contexte socio-économique de l'ile. Il donne ensuite une courte description de la situation démographique de Porto Rico, une ébauche des politiques démographiques mises en œuvre au cours de ces dernières années et un bref aperçu bibliographique. La seconde partie présente une enquête réalisée dans une communauté aux revenus modestes de San juan, capitale de Porto Rico. Le but était de recueillir et d'écrire les effets de programmes de planning familial sur le comportement procréateur des femmes issues de ces milieux. Certaines variables ont été prises en considération pour analyser les attitudes, concernant la procréation de femmes étudiées, notamment: le nombre d'enfants, le niveau de scolarité, le nombre de mariages, la pratique contraceptive, l'attitude des femmes vis-à-vis de la stérilisation, l'expérience migratoire, la position sur le travail salarie de la femme, la fécondité de leurs mères, entre autres. Le travail se termine sur une analyse sommaire des résultats et l'énonce de quelques conclusions sur les politiques démographiques à Porto RicoBirth control is a fact in Puerto Rico since 1920. In the first part of this study demographic policies are related to the socio-economic development of the island. This section also includes a brief description of the demographic situation of Puerto Rico, the most important birth control policies and a short bibliographic revision on the subject. The second part of this dissertation presents an out-of-reach study of a low-income community in San Juan - capital of Puerto Rico. The purpose of this research is to describe the effects and consequences of the family planning programs in fertility patterns of low-income women. Several variables were considered in the analysis of the attitudes towards motherhood and contraception of these women: the number of children per woman, their educational level, number of unions, their contraceptive habits, their attitude towards sterilization, their migration experience, their attitudes towards working women and the fertility of their mothers, among other things. This study concludes with a brief analysis of the results and presents some conclusions on demographic policies in Puerto Rico
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Lynch, Evan Thomas. "Three Danzas by Puerto Rican Clarinetist/Composer Juan Rios Ovalle Arranged for Clarinet and Piano." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149259610054858.
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Black, Ashley Leane. "From San Juan to Saigon : shifting conceptions of Puerto Rican identity during the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42499.
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Between 1964 and 1973, the United States sent over 48,000 Puerto Rican soldiers to fight the war in Vietnam. While many enlisted voluntarily, many others were sent as draftees, subject to conscription as citizens of the United States. This is the starting point of this thesis, which looks at the intersection between citizenship, nationality and military service in relation to Puerto Rican identity at the time of the Vietnam War.
This project focuses on the experiences of three distinct groups. First, it uses newspaper and archival research to explore opposition to the draft by Puerto Rican nationalists on the island, who used conscription as a tool to challenge the meaning of their citizenship. They questioned how a state that denied them the right to vote could require them to give the ultimate sacrifice and challenged both the moral and legal dimensions of conscription as it applied to the island. Next, it moves to the Puerto Rican barrios of New York to look at second-generation Puerto Ricans who came of age during the era of civil rights and the Vietnam War. Through the lens of popular culture, it looks at the early development of Puerto Rican stereotypes in Hollywood films and the way that these were challenged by a new generation of writers and activists by the close of the sixties. Finally, it turns to interviews and memoirs of Puerto Rican veterans to present a personal account of what it meant to be Puerto Rican in the U.S. armed forces at the time, and questions the success of the military’s effort to construct soldiers who would remain loyal American citizens after the war. Taken separately, each of these chapters provides a small glimpse of the Puerto Rican experience during the Vietnam War era, but taken together they contribute to our understanding of the ways in which the war, and the environment it created, played a role in the efforts of Puerto Ricans to reclaim and reconstruct their collective identity during this period.
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Davila, Ana Luisa. "Le Planning familial à Porto Rico étude d'une communauté de San Juan aux revenus modestes /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376043125.
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Ortiz, Camacho Janialy. "Transitar entre la práctica gubernamental y la política: desarrollo y conflicto en la Comunidad Especial Juan Domingo, Puerto Rico." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401431.
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En este estudio se analizan los efectos de la implantación de un programa gubernamental de desarrollo comunitario denominado Desarrollo Integral de las Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico (2001), sobre los residentes del barrio Juan Domingo, un barrio pobre ubicado en una zona privilegiada del país. Cónsone con los ejercicios neoliberales que revitalizan el neo-comunitarianismo, este proyecto propuso erradicar la pobreza 1) promoviendo la autogestión, el apoderamiento y la generación del capital social entre los ciudadanos y 2) transformando el rol del Estado durante este proceso. El proyecto además buscaba mejorar las condiciones materiales de estos barrios, patrocinando y financiando un proyecto de infraestructura de importancia que estimularía la organización vecinal-colectiva. Este proceso produjo un nuevo territorio de negociación y subjetividad política que expande previas nociones sobre la relación entre ciudadanos pobres y el Estado.
Basándome en los propósitos de esta política pública convertida en ley, la investigación responde las siguientes preguntas: ¿cómo esta intervención gubernamental e infraestructural fue interpretada y negociada a través de la política local? ¿Bajo qué condiciones los residentes del barrio Juan Domingo se convierten en agentes que actúan respondiendo a sus intereses? ¿Qué nuevas formas surgieron de hacer lo político? ¿Qué aportan estas nuevas formas a nuestro entendimiento de las dimensiones del poder, particularmente aquellas que promueven prácticas alternativas de organización y gobernanza? Finalmente y a modo de síntesis, ¿cómo los procesos político-económicos están simultáneamente implicados y obviados en el proceso de producir ciudadanos activos-sostenibles?
Para responder estas preguntas exploro el encuentro entre lo que identifico como 1) la práctica gubernamental: ley tecnificada, posiciones de los funcionarios que la ejecutan, representantes de la autoridad local y 2) la práctica política: la forma en que los actores interpretan, apropian y estabilizan la intervención por medio de procesos políticos contestatarios o de subordinación. Ambas prácticas
contienen un componente discursivo que nutre las acciones y a medida que éstas operan en la realidad social, se auto-revisan. Por esta razón ha sido necesario analizar la relación entre práctica gubernamental y política desde una perspectiva histórica. Además, esta etnografía ha contemplado un análisis en escalas para mostrar cómo la relación entre estas prácticas se genera y sustenta desde la experiencia local-comunitaria y desde las redes o alianzas nacionales.
Los datos de esta investigación han sido recopilados a través de una etnografía situada (periodos 2009-2012), en el barrio Juan Domingo, ubicado en la ciudad de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Juan Domingo es un barrio atípico en la red de comunidades especiales del país, pero desde su incursión al programa gubernamental fue considerada una comunidad modelo. Esta categoría le fue conferida debido a las redes que en este barrio se desarrollaron con gestores del Tercer sector. La zona del barrio más vinculada a esta red de alianzas público- privadas es donde Comunidades Especiales consolida su programa. Al analizar este vínculo, fue posible comprender los significados asignados por el Estado a los conceptos de autogestión y apoderamiento, así como las potenciales dinámicas que se suscitarían en los barrios impactados por este proyecto. Si el fortalecimiento de la relación entre las organizaciones de base comunitaria y el Tercer Sector era uno de los objetivos de la ley para el Desarrollo Integral de las Comunidades Especiales, Juan Domingo brinda pistas de cómo se dilucidaría esta interacción.The purpose of this research is to analyze the effects of the governmental project called “Integral Development for the Special Communities” implemented by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, on the residents of Juan Domingo, a poor neighborhood in the metropolitan area, and its relationship with other public entities and non-governmental civic institutions. Its main objective is to discuss how political-economic processes are simultaneously implicated, and yet elided, in these processes of producing orderly, empowered, responsible, development subjects. More specifically, this research examines under what conditions due the subjects for the social and infrastructural intervention become agents who act upon their own priorities, and if their goals are conducted or not by the studied development project. In addition, it examines if the governmental intervention generates possibilities for collective organization, and if it does, what type of values this organization promotes. This ethnography contributes to the understanding of those policies that transform the role of State and the citizens, while producing conflicted ideas regarding the community and notions of wellbeing in times of socio-economic crisis. It also contributes to the general understanding of how governmental interventions are construed and negotiated through local politics, and how political subjects are produced. The data of this situated ethnography, undertaken from 2009-2012, explores the encounter between 1) practice of government: when the law becomes technical and is enacted by state workers and local representatives and 2) practice of politics: how actors react, appropriate or stabilize the development intervention in word or deed. When these political processes are challenged they often open a front of struggle. Since both practices are supported by strong discourses that shape action in social reality, I analyze them from an historical perspective. Also, since these practices are not only produced in the local-community level, but also in the national level, this ethnography takes into account the relationship between both contexts.
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Vaccaro, Jenanne. "Juan del Frasco, o la Compleja “Inbetweeneidad” de ser Puertorriqueña." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1581.
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This thesis, written in the Spanish language, merges historical documents, literature, and interviews in the form of a creative story that explores the Puerto Rican identity through the lens of one family. Cuca, the main character, is an allegory of the island’s current and historical state of “in-betweenness”. As a former Spanish colony, then U.S. territory, and now a U.S. commonwealth, the island has incorporated elements from each imperial regime, though never fully being a part of any. The story begins in 2008 and centers first on Cuca, and then her granddaughter who struggles to understand her own identity as both an American and a Puerto Rican. The story then goes back in time to 1930, the year in which the Puerto Rican government legalized divorce. After Cuca’s mother divorces her Spanish father, and then marries an American, Cuca comes to have two paternal figures much like Puerto Rican has had: one Spanish and one American. Taking place between 1930 and 1942, the story focuses on the island’s evolving identity between the Great Depression years and the beginning of Operation Bootstrap, the latter which sought to modernize the island and to increase tourism. The thesis raises the complexities of being Puerto Rican, but also more generally the complexities of all those who feel caught between cultures and identities.
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Beaton, Mary Elizabeth. "Coda Liquid Production and Perception in Puerto Rican Spanish." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437135547.
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Shuey, Lillian C. (Lillian Carrie) 1977. "Improving relationships between public transit authorities and medical centers : case studies and applications to the Illinois Medical District (Chicago, Illinois) and Centro Medico (Sun Juan, Puerto Rico)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70366.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66).
This thesis addresses transportation and mobility at urban medical centers, concluding that prioritizing transit access at medical centers has the potential to fundamentally transform the hospital experience by reducing congestion, increasing efficiency, improving the built environment, avoiding the deadening effect of parking garages, and improving quality of care. The thesis considers the implications of improved public transportation on medical centers, as well as the impact of hospital ridership on transit authorities via a softened peak service period, increased off-peak ridership, and the availability of origin-destination data. The institutional structure and physical design of four major medical research centers are examined for successes and flaws, as are the policies and service of the associated transit authority. Observations from these case studies are then applied to Chicago's Illinois Medical District and San Juan's Centro Medico, areas currently undergoing major capital investments in transportation infrastructure.
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Ruiz, Mestre Hermelindo. "GUITAR ARRANGEMENTS OF SELECTED DANZAS OF JUAN F. ACOSTA, WITH NEW CONSIDERATIONS OF HIS MUSIC AND MUSICAL LIFE." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/125.
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Juan Francisco Acosta (1890-1968) was a prolific composer, band conductor, and educator from Puerto Rico who created 1,256 original compositions. Even though his activities and influence were integral to the musical life of Puerto Rico in the twentieth century, many details of his life and works remain unknown.
This project centers on Acosta’s contribution to the Puerto Rican tradition of the danza—a dance-based genre originating in the nineteenth century—through the study and arrangement of five of Acosta's danzas. Although Acosta composed most danzas for piano, he adapted them for performances by the municipal bands that he led in various towns. This practice of modifying his works for different instruments, as well as the importance of the guitar in Latin America, underpins the author’s choice to arrange his piano music for varied types of guitar combinations, including solo, duo, trio, and quartet. The five works are Bajo la sombra de un pino, Mercedes, Eres una santa, Dulce María, and In memoriam.
The guitar arrangements of these five danzas are preceded by important information on the composer within the Puerto Rican music world, with emphasis on the intersections of the band and danza traditions. To enhance the study of these works, this document discusses basic stylistic features, including a comparison of forms, rhythms, and dance characters, and relates Acosta's treatment of the danza puertorriqueña to approaches of his Puerto Rican contemporaries. This document also includes performance guidelines to introduce Acosta's danza style to student and professional players.
Based on primary biographical and musical sources, this study presents a foundation for a clearer understanding of the life and works of Acosta upon which further research, analysis, and criticism can be conducted. The arrangements offer a fresh look at new guitar repertoire using the peculiarities of rhythms and traditions of Puerto Rican and Carribean heritage. The arrangements also serve a pedagogical purpose by adding to the existing repertoire of ensemble music for the classical guitar.
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Hellequin, Anne Peggy. "Génèse et dynamique des centres historiques en Méditerranée américaine." Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC), 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA120004.
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La ville doit etre consideree dans son universalite et son exceptionnalite. L'observation de trois centres historiques comme ceux de la havane, de san juan de puerto rico et de la nouvelle- orleans, appartenant a une meme aire geographique en l'occurrence la mediterranee americaine, permet de s'interroger plus precisement sur les parts respectives de l'universalite et de l'exceptionnalite de chacun d'entre eux. La premiere partie de la these s'interroge ainsi sur l'ambivalence de ce territoire. Elle doit d'ailleurs etre comprise a deux niveaux. En effet, il existe une exceptionnalite du centre historique par rapport au reste de la ville, qui constitue un premier degre d'universalite entre les trois villes, et il existe une exceptionnalite des centres historiques entre eux. L'utilisation d'un certain nombre d'eclairages geographiques comme les paysages, la situation des centres historiques dans la ville, la perception qu'en ont les populations, ou la combinaison fonctionnelle qui les caracterise permet d'affirmer leur existence en tant que territoire particulier, mais aussi l'existence d'un certain nombre d'irregularite les differenciant. L'interrogation des conditions de leur genese et de leur dynamique permet d'expliquer ces deux facettes. Des conditions mecaniques comme l'explosion demographique ou l'eclatement de la centralite en differents points du territoire urbain ont permis leur emergence dans les trois villes qui nous interesse. Au contraire, il doit exister des determinants responsables de l'irregularite des centres historiques entre eux, l'hypothese etant que le politique en tant que jeu entre differents acteurs en soit le principal. Cependant, contrairement a celle-ci, l'observation de l'espace politique du centre historique a travers sa prise en compte au fil du xxe siecle montre que malgre des projets a priori differents, la dynamique des centres historiques semble plus marquee par les imperatifs economiquesThe city have to be seen in its unity and its diversity. Three historic centers, old havana, old san juan, and the french quarter in new orleans can show this division. This three historic centers are only in front of the city and they are different each other. History can explain unity and diversity. We have thought that urban growth and evolution of the urban core were causes of unity. Historic preservation from state and private entities were responsible of diversity. Havana, san juan and new orleans were very interesting because very different for their urban policy. The historical study display that even historic preservation was different, evolution of historic centers is comparable. Old havana, old san juan and the french quarter of new orleans have to be seen like a tourist-historic city with variations of size. So, we can conclude that another dimension, perhaps globalization, can explain diversity of three historic centers. Economoic problems in cuba for example stop all programs of historic preservation
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"How Cities Think: Knowledge-Action Systems Analysis for Urban Sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico." Doctoral diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15217.
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abstract: With more than 70 percent of the world's population expected to live in cities by 2050, it behooves us to understand urban sustainability and improve the capacity of city planners and policymakers to achieve sustainable goals. Producing and linking knowledge to action is a key tenet of sustainability science. This dissertation examines how knowledge-action systems -- the networks of actors involved in the production, sharing and use of policy-relevant knowledge -- work in order to inform what capacities are necessary to effectively attain sustainable outcomes. Little is known about how knowledge-action systems work in cities and how they should be designed to address their complexity. I examined this question in the context of land use and green area governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where political conflict exists over extensive development, particularly over the city's remaining green areas. I developed and applied an interdisciplinary framework -- the Knowledge-Action System Analysis (KASA) Framework --that integrates concepts of social network analysis and knowledge co-production (i.e., epistemic cultures and boundary work). Implementation of the framework involved multiple methods --surveys, interviews, participant observations, and document--to gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data. Results from the analysis revealed a diverse network of actors contributing different types of knowledge, thus showing a potential in governance for creativity and innovation. These capacities, however, are hindered by various political and cultural factors, such as: 1) breakdown in vertical knowledge flow between state, city, and local actors; 2) four divergent visions of San Juan's future emerging from distinct epistemic cultures; 3) extensive boundary work by multiple actors to separate knowledge and planning activities, and attain legitimacy and credibility in the process; 4) and hierarchies of knowledge where outside expertise (e.g., private planning and architectural firms) is privileged over others, thus reflecting competing knowledge systems in land use and green area planning in San Juan. I propose a set of criteria for building just and effective knowledge-action systems for cities, including: context and inclusiveness, adaptability and reflexivity, and polycentricity. In this way, this study also makes theoretical contributions to the knowledge systems literature specifically, and urban sustainability in general.Dissertation/Thesis
Ph.D. Sustainability 2012
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Lecároz, Rosario. "A study of the environmental barriers in the city of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico Interior and exterior design guidelines /." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/41478689.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1998.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-176).
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Olivo, Ingrid A. "Reconstructing early modern disaster management in Puerto Rico: development and planning examined through the lens of Hurricanes San Ciriaco (1899), San Felipe (1928) and Santa Clara (1956)." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8WD3ZNG.
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This is the first longitudinal, retrospective, qualitative, descriptive and multi-case study of hurricanes in Puerto Rico, from 1899 to 1956, researching for planning purposes the key lessons from the disaster management changes that happened during the transition of Puerto Rico from a Spanish colony to a Commonwealth of the United States. The selected time period is crucial to grasp the foundations of modern disaster management, development and planning processes. Disasters are potent lenses through which inspect realpolitik in historical and current times, and grasp legacies that persist today, germane planning tasks. Moreover, Puerto Rico is an exemplary case; it has been an experimental laboratory for policies later promoted by the US abroad, and it embodies key common conditions to develop my research interface between urban planning and design, meteorology, hydrology, sociology, political science, culture and social history.
After introducing the dissertation, I present a literature review of the emergence of the secular characterization of disasters and a recent paradigm shift for understanding what a disaster is, its causes and how to respond. Next, I summarize the multidisciplinary research and policy knowledge concerning Puerto Rican hurricanes. Subsequently, I explain my methodological sequential data analysis, beginning with three case studies, followed by cross-case comparisons and assessments, ending in answer, recommendations and conclusions. I implemented a version of Grounded Theory, combining deductive and inductive thinking, with a phenomenologist standpoint that valued people's experiences and interpretations of the world. I aimed to denaturalize so-called ‘natural disasters’, exposing with a political economy lens the political character of public decision-making before, during and after a disaster; and grasp how politics impacted the society under study. My research methods were archival research in the field and online, visual sociology and case study. Based on information-oriented sampling, I chose the destructive hurricanes San Ciriaco (1899), San Felipe (1928) and Santa Clara (1956), which occurred at critical historical junctures. I examined three themes: characterization, causation, and relief. Those themes divided into six sub-questions and thirty-eight variables, summarized later.
Answer: Disaster management vastly improved mirroring shifting ideas of God, nature, knowledge and humanity; always influenced by the dependent position of the island. Historically, citizens tried to handle hurricanes through mythological beliefs, empirical observations, rituals and material practices; some of which endured colonization and modernization into the mid 20th century. Disaster management emerged haphazardly; at first it was ineffective and improvised relief, without much preventive or reconstructive policy-making. The official perception of hurricanes changed from being essentially uncontrollable religious or natural events, to natural events that could be tamed with technology, physical changes and policies. Yet, it was a more nuanced confluence of environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political factors that enabled storms to become destructive disasters affecting the Puerto Rican economy, environment and society. The social groups that experienced higher resilience or vulnerability during a disaster respectively corresponded to the groups that were best and least served during relief and who could or could not produce public transcripts and policies. Such division resulted from entrenched social and political arrangements, including citizens’ rights, colonial administrative policies, social hierarchy that merged local and external power dynamics, and notions of habitus . Eventually, the growing understanding of citizens’ rights was critical to reduce hurricane casualties and the worst forms of vulnerability through New Deal and Commonwealth developmental projects. By also including contentious aims though, they created other forms of underdevelopment and dependency from the US; whilst technology and modernity paradigms bolstered new risks that would become rather costly. Simultaneously, disaster management became a federal responsibility, which reached Puerto Rico; but it was the unplanned intersection of a hodge-podge of disciplines, approaches and institutions, centered on physical interventions and neglecting the role of culture and the political economy of disasters with negative lasting impacts. Although improvised, contradictory and controversial; the main factors enabling the rise of disaster management were increased governmental leadership, knowledge construction, public awareness, planning and investment in hard and soft infrastructure, and relief provision.
My dissertation contributes to Puerto Rican Studies and to emerging planning discussions about the Circum-Caribbean. Also, it contributes to disaster management, an area of academic and practice-oriented literature relevant for planning, fastly growing given the rising frequency and intensity of multiple disasters; and which is usually focused on contemporary events, prospective forecasting and proposal-making. Contrastingly, my dissertation’s strengths reside in being a critical and exhaustive historical study of hurricanes that proposes an option to the customary deleterious disciplinary fragmentation of disaster studies and management, and to the emphasis on physical change that remain standards in most countries.