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Schools That HealDesign with Mental Health in Mind
What would a school look like if it was designed with mental health in mind? Too many public schools look and feel like prisons, designed out of fear of vandalism and truancy. But we know that nurturing environments are better for learning. Research consistently shows that access to nature, big classroom windows, and open campuses reduce stress, anxiety, disorderly conduct, and crime, and impro…
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BUENOS AIRES. UNA TRILOGIA METROPOLITANAArquitectura, paisajes y espacios urb…
Buenos Aires, una trilogÃa metropolitana condensa en un solo tomo una revisión revisada y aumentada de dos libros anteriores, Buenos Aires Metrópolis (1997) y Buenos Aires Natural + Artificial (2000) más un material inédito referido al patrimonio y la transformación urbana. Este volumen y los que lo antecedieron tienen origen en un proyecto de investigación en arquitectura y urbanismo qu…
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Recast Your CityHow to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing
Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a single industry (usually in technology), or pursuing other narrow or short-term fixes that are inequitable and unsustainable. Some cities and towns were changing, even before the historic retail collapse brought on by COVID-19. They started to shift t…
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Perspectivas Bioeticas Nº 42
La Revista de Bioética y Derecho se creó en 2004 a iniciativa del Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho (OBD), con el soporte del Máster en Bioética y Derecho de la Universidad de Barcelona: www.bioeticayderecho.ub.edu/master. En 2016 la revista Perspectivas Bioéticas del Programa de Bioética de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) se ha fusionado con la Revista de BioÃ…
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Curbing TrafficThe Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Bluepr…
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Perspectivas Bioeticas Nº 41
La Revista de Bioética y Derecho se creó en 2004 a iniciativa del Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho (OBD), con el soporte del Máster en Bioética y Derecho de la Universidad de Barcelona: www.bioeticayderecho.ub.edu/master. En 2016 la revista Perspectivas Bioéticas del Programa de Bioética de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) se ha fusionado con la Revista de BioÃ…
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Conserving the Historic Environment
Why do we decide that parts of our built environment are worth the special attention that heritage designation brings? How can the character of conservation areas and other historic places continue to evolve to provide new housing, release their economic potential and enhance communities? What are the principles to understand when judging the impact of new development or alterations to our sign…
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25 CASOS DE DISEÑO "GROSSO"Argentina 1920-1981
POR QUÉ ESTOS CASOS?. Esta es una pseudo historia del diseño en la Argentina a mediados del siglo XX. Pseudo porque no cumple con los protocolos rigurosos de la historiografÃa académica, pero "historia" en tanto que es una narración, como un cuento que se narra en cualquier reunión de amigos. Los casos que aquà se analizan no son todos paradigmas en el sentido de modelos o ejemplares rep…
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Planning and Participation
Why should the public participate in planning? And who are the stakeholders who are required to participate in the planning process? This guide assesses public and stakeholder participation in the planning process, which is a statutory requirement across the entire scope and scale of planning activities in many global contexts. It provides a historical overview of participation and outlines how…
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Perspectivas Bioeticas Nº 46
La Revista de Bioética y Derecho se creó en 2004 a iniciativa del Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho (OBD), con el soporte del Máster en Bioética y Derecho de la Universidad de Barcelona: www.bioeticayderecho.ub.edu/master. En 2016 la revista Perspectivas Bioéticas del Programa de Bioética de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) se ha fusionado con la Revista de BioÃ…
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