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Mayo 7
Living in the New Metropolis, un proyecto del fotógrafo Martin Roemers (artículo):
… In this project, “Metropolis,” I am documenting the megacities of our time — places with populations in excess of 10 million. Every megacity is a theater, and every city has a different stage and different actors.
My question is, how can people live in cities that are so immense? Crowded cities in India like Mumbai and Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta); Dhaka, Bangladesh; Manila; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Karachi, Pakistan, have traffic jams all the time…

Living in the New Metropolis, un proyecto del fotógrafo Martin Roemers (artículo):

… In this project, “Metropolis,” I am documenting the megacities of our time — places with populations in excess of 10 million. Every megacity is a theater, and every city has a different stage and different actors.

My question is, how can people live in cities that are so immense? Crowded cities in India like Mumbai and Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta); Dhaka, Bangladesh; Manila; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Karachi, Pakistan, have traffic jams all the time…


Mayo 6

Luz. Museo de los DesplazadosLeft Hand Rotation.

El centro de São Paulo es un foco de resistencia políticaRaquel Rolnik

Bairro da Luz, estigmatizado como “cracolandia” por el poder público, resiste a un intento de gentrificación en tentativa desde los años 70. El último capítulo en la historia de la política urbana del centro histórico de São Paulo, la última estrategia, es el exterminio. Bajo el nombre de Proyecto Nova Luz, más del 30% del barrio amenaza con ser desapropiado y demolido como parte de un plan para transformar la zona y expulsar a sus actuales moradores, aquellos que luchan hoy por afirmar la existencia de ese territorio y de su cultura.

El proyecto urbanístico Nova Luz está vinculado a una concesión urbanística de la zona como un todo, es decir, se permite a una empresa privada, en este caso AECOM, la desapropiación, derribo y  posterior intervención en el barrio en bloque con fines lucrativos. Así, el proyecto Nova Luz nació con un planteamiento estrictamente estructural, que dejaba sin resolver todas las cuestiones sociales que atañen a la intervención en esta zona específica: ¿dónde serían reubicados aquellos que sufrieran desapropiaciones?, ¿qué sucedería con el alto porcentaje de no-propietarios que serían desplazados?, ¿cómo se abordaría el problema de salud pública asociado al consumo de crack en la zona?, y un largo etc.

En su planteamiento, todas las especificaciones sociales, culturales y únicas del barrio fueron ignoradas: 

Es esta una región con un alto porcentaje de población de baja rentaque, en muchos casos, tiene en la permanencia en el centro la condición para poder seguir desarrollando las actividades de las que dependen económicamente, y cuyo desplazamiento a las periferias supondría un golpe a su modo de subsistencia.  Este es el caso de los denominadoscatadores de lixo.  Bairro da Luz es conocido por su comercio asociado a la electrónica. Esta singularidad provoca que se genere en la zona un tipo de basura rica en componentes reciclables, y con ella la aparición de una actividad de subsistencia ligada a la selección informal de basura para reciclaje.

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Mega-regiones de Europa (mapa de The Creative Class Group). En la Península Ibérica: Madrid, Barcelona-Lyon y Lisboa (incluyendo la zona costera de Galicia)

Mega-regiones de Europa (mapa de The Creative Class Group). En la Península Ibérica: Madrid, Barcelona-Lyon y Lisboa (incluyendo la zona costera de Galicia)


Dic 27

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II

Music video for Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs”: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains). Edited by Michael McVey. Stock footage from the Prelinger Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/IntheSub1957


The city lights of Spain and Portugal define the Iberian Peninsula in this photograph from the International Space Station (ISS). Several large metropolitan areas are visible, marked by their relatively large and brightly lit areas, including the capital cities of Madrid, Spain—located near the center of the peninsula’s interior—and Lisbon, Portugal—located along the southwestern coastline. The ancient city of Seville, visible to the north of the Strait of Gibraltar, is one of the largest cities in Spain. The astronaut view is looking toward the east, and is part of a time-lapse series of images.
The network of smaller cities and towns along the coastline and in the interior attest to the extent of the human presence on the Iberian landscape. The blurring of city lights is caused by thin cloud cover (image left and center), while cloud tops are dimly illuminated by moonlight. Though obscured, the lights of France are visible near the horizon line on the upper left, while the lights of northern Africa are more clearly discernable at right. The faint gold and green line of airglow—caused by ultraviolet radiation exciting the gas molecules in the upper atmosphere—parallels the horizon (or Earth limb)…

The city lights of Spain and Portugal define the Iberian Peninsula in this photograph from the International Space Station (ISS). Several large metropolitan areas are visible, marked by their relatively large and brightly lit areas, including the capital cities of Madrid, Spain—located near the center of the peninsula’s interior—and Lisbon, Portugal—located along the southwestern coastline. The ancient city of Seville, visible to the north of the Strait of Gibraltar, is one of the largest cities in Spain. The astronaut view is looking toward the east, and is part of a time-lapse series of images.

The network of smaller cities and towns along the coastline and in the interior attest to the extent of the human presence on the Iberian landscape. The blurring of city lights is caused by thin cloud cover (image left and center), while cloud tops are dimly illuminated by moonlight. Though obscured, the lights of France are visible near the horizon line on the upper left, while the lights of northern Africa are more clearly discernable at right. The faint gold and green line of airglow—caused by ultraviolet radiation exciting the gas molecules in the upper atmosphere—parallels the horizon (or Earth limb)…


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Political Ecuador: Considering the Tijuana-San Diego border as a point of departure, the Political Equator traces an imaginary line along the US–Mexico border and extends it directly across a world atlas, forming a corridor of global conflict between the 30 and 36 degrees North Parallel. Along this imaginary border encircling the globe lie some of the world’s most contested thresholds.