scholarly journals Public works: Building a Monument to Modern Buenos Aires

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman

Understanding the relationship between the project of modernity and urbanism has been key to understanding the city of Buenos Aires’ material transformations throughout the 20th century. This paper considers how thinking about the issues of modernity and urbanism from the perspective of monuments--namely, the Obelisk of Buenos Aires--sheds new light on how elements of this modernizing project were undertaken and how its material markers have been used and manipulated, and modified through their representation in cultural discourse on the city. Rethinking Buenos Aires from the Obelisk implies literally thinking from underground, from the subway lines that form its base and transform it into a popular symbol of mobility.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Fontan ◽  
Matilde Rusticucci

In this review, seven pieces of research on climate variability and its impact on human health in Buenos Aires City between 1995 and 2015 were evaluated. The review highlighted continuities and ruptures in the methodology, variables, and statistics data of the research, considering their similarities and differences in the period of study and the methodology applied. Contributions, pending issues, and public policies on climate change challenges in the city aimed at improving living conditions were considered. Six studies contributed evidence on the relationship between climate and health and its impacts on the population; two studies suggested the development of early warning systems and one study is a preliminary approach.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
María Belén Arribalzaga ◽  
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This work is grounded in my professional practice as a teacher in middle schools in vulnerable neighborhoods in the southern part of the city of Buenos Aires. In this article I will focus on the relationship between middleschool education for teenagers from vulnerable contexts and specific processes of violence and exclusion such as "slow death" and "necropolitics". The hypothesis I will present is that in certain contexts, the educational system encourages and (re)produces a politics of death that exposes these male identities to greater risk. I will also contend that this has its correlation in the construction of identities. Finally, I will suggest that critical and queer pedagogies can provide tools for resistance and transformation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-280
Author(s):  
Ian Morley

The historiography of the Philippine City Beautiful recurrently centers on one date, 1905; two cities, Manila and Baguio; and one urban planner, Daniel Burnham. The colonial civil service's Filipinization of city planning after 1916 remains an unexplored facet of planning history. This article explores the planning practices of the Bureau of Public Works' Division of Architecture, which from 1919 was headed by Filipinos, and the relationship of these efforts to the City Beautiful, given the power mediation between the Americans and Filipinos in the run-up to the creation of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935.


2017 ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kobojek

The aim of this article is to present the relationship between an industrial city and a small river within the last 200 years and the contemporary development and functions of rivers and valleys. The study was conducted in Łódź (currently nearly 699,000 inhabitants). In the 19th and in the early 20th century, the spatial development of the city also caused considerable transformations of rivers and their valleys. It was only at the turn of the 20th century, i.e. after the fall of the textile industry and a rise of the focus on ecological structures within a city, that the authorities decided to repair the utilisation of rivers and valleys.


2021 ◽  
pp. 396-437
Author(s):  
E.V. Dukov ◽  
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V.D. Evallyo ◽  
E.A. Semenova ◽  
M.L. Magidovich ◽  
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The problem of interaction between machines and humans has been relevant at all times of human civilization’s development. This subject arose most acutely in the era of scientific and technical progress, giving rise to a wide problem field, many aspects of which still require scientific understanding. In this discussion, the researchers tried to analyze the situation of the widespread implantation of new technologies and machines into the art field. The integration of technology generates the necessity of the author’s interpretations about the relationship between the technological and the humanistic. The authors turned to the problem of identification and draw the boundaries of the human “I” in the era of computerization of many spheres of life, to the topic of technology’s images in cinema (Polish, American, documentary), to the image of industrialization in American art of the first half of the 20th century, to modern installations by A. Reichstein, to the screen media in the stage space, in the city, and even in the virtual environment (for example on incredibly popular TikTok platform). The authors conclude that machine civilization is closely intertwined with humans. The images of technology are overgrown with countless interpretations: they can act as a theme, device, context, decoration, character, conflict with humanity, fight for its prosperity, try to identify itself in the human world.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mariana Tezón

El presente artículo fue realizado en el marco de una investigación, referida a la relación que establecen  las familias y las escuelas de niños en situación de vulnerabilidad económico y social de la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante el 2014. El propósito del trabajo es el de analizar las creencias sobre educación y relación familia-escuela de las docentes que trabajan en estos contextos. Para ello, se utilizó una metodología de índole cualitativa en la cual se buscó describir la percepción docente en cuanto a la incidencia del contexto sociocultural en las creencias sobre educación, y cómo éstas podrían propiciar un distanciamiento entre las familias y la escuela de estos niños.  Los resultados dan cuenta de categorías que implican falta  de participación, desinterés de las familias, como también una marcada distancia sociocultural entre ambas instituciones sociales, lo cual repercute en las prácticas de los docentes. La relevancia de este artículo reside en una evaluación educativa  para detectar problemas socio-culturales a fin de establecer un diagnóstico para la creación de intervención en el vínculo de las familias y las escuelas.Abstract.This article was made as part of an investigation regarding the relationship with families and schools of children situations of economic and social vulnerability of the city of Buenos Aires in 2014. The purpose of this paper was to analyze beliefs about education and family-school relationship of the teachers working in these contexts. To this end, proper a methodology of qualitative nature in which we sought to describe the teaching perception regarding the impact of sociocultural context in beliefs about education, and how they could lead to a rift between families and the school of these children was used. The results show categories that involve lack of participation, lack of families, as well as a marked cultural distance between the two social institutions, which affects the practices of teachers. The relevance of this article lies in an educational assessment to identify socio-cultural to establish a diagnosis and creation of interventions in the problems of family and school.


Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhan Zunino Singh

This article traces a genealogy of sexual harassment in Buenos Aires public transport, analyzing the intersection between gender and mobility through cultural history. It focuses on the first decades of the twentieth century in which the city became a modern metropolis and women became more visible commuters using public transport. It deals with the tensions, interactions, expectations, and representations that emerged from the increasing presence of female passengers within the male imaginary and how women became a sexualized object in order to contextualize sexual harassment and explain how it became a “natural” practice over time. Finally, this article argues that the case study triggers the need to analyze gendered mobilities paying more attention to the relationship between sexuality and transport to understand passengers as sexualized bodies.


Author(s):  
C. Giribas ◽  
G. Paredes ◽  
A. Riquelme

Abstract. During the 19th century, the port of Valparaíso was the place in Chile with the closest links to the rest of the world, leading to strong social, cultural and technological transformations in the city. The arrival of the industrial revolution together with foreign influence led to the apparition of machinism; which along with the need to connect the lower area of the city with the hills led to the construction of several urban elevators. More than thirty elevators functioned throughout Valparaíso during the 20th century, out of which less than a half remained operational at the beginning of the 21st century. In order to recover this valuable heritage in a city which was declared World Heritage in 2003 by UNESCO, the Ministry of Public Works of Chile promoted a plan to restore nine urban elevators in Valparaíso. This article refers specifically to the restoration works of the second elevator ever built in the city: the Cordillera funicular, which opened in 1887. The complexities linked to the recovery of an obsolete technological system for contemporary public transport standards will be exposed; along with relevant discoveries linked to the history of Valparaíso, such as the archaeological finding of the ruins of the San José Castle during building works.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Herzer ◽  
Carla Rodríguez ◽  
Adriana Redondo ◽  
María Mercedes Di Virgilio ◽  
Fernando Ostuni

En este trabajo se analizan las transformaciones que los comedores populares –un tipo de organización social que crece exponencialmente en el barrio de La Boca, área sur de la ciudad de Buenos Aires–, han experimentado en su lógica y en sus acciones como producto de la profundización de la crisis argentina entre 1999 y 2002. En este contexto el barrio aparece como un espacio natural de acción y organización; se convierte en el lugar de interacción de distintos actores y organizaciones de base donde la militancia social territorial se reviste de nuevas características. Allí los comedores se unen a un haz, por demás heterogéneo, que reúne a otras organizaciones provenientes de diferentes horizontes políticos.Más allá de los efectos más evidentes de empobrecimiento ligados a las crisis, ¿por qué y para qué se multiplican los comedores populares? En este artículo se intenta establecer su incidencia como complemento de los recursos obtenidos por las familias de bajos ingresos y determinar otras implicaciones sociopolíticas propias de su participación en el entramado barrial. Para ello se desarrolla un análisis comparativo a partir de un sondeo en organizaciones sociales barriales y entrevistas en profundidad realizadas en los años 1999 y 2002. La caracterización de ambos momentos permite analizar algunas tendencias: los cambios en los procesos de institucionalización, las actividades que desarrollan tales organizaciones y los criterios de autoorganización o prestación de servicios.Se delimita de este modo un lugar particular que permite caracterizar la emergencia de nuevas mediaciones sociopolíticas en el contexto de la crisis. La relación con el Estado –mediante el análisis de algunos programas alimentarios que el Gobierno de la Ciudad echa a andar o que intensifica a partir de la crisis, y que tienen a estos comedores como uno de sus ejecutores privilegiados– constituye una variable clave para comprender este lugar. AbstractThis paper examines the transformations that popular kitchens –a type of social organization that has increased exponentially in the La Boca neighborhood, an area in the south of Buenos Aires–, has experienced in its logic and actions as a result of the exacerbation of the Argentinean crisis between 1999 and 2000. Within this context, the neighborhood emerges as natural sphere of action and organization, becoming a forum of interaction between various actors and grass-roots organizations where social-territorial militancy assumes a variety of characteristics. There, popular kitchens are linked to a single, heterogeneous group comprising other organizations from different political horizons.Beyond the most obvious effects of impoverishment linked to the crisis, why have popular kitchens proliferated? This article seeks to establish their incidence as a complement to the resources obtained by low-income families and to determine other socio-political implications characteristic of their participation in the neighborhood network. To this end, it undertakes a comparative analysis on the basis of a survey of neighborhood social organizations and in-depth interviews carried out in 1999 and 2002. The description of both moments enables certain trends to be analyzed: the changes in the processes of institutionalization, the activities undertaken by these organizations and the characteristics of self-organization or service provision.In this way, the authors delimit a particular place which enables the emergence of new socio-political mediations to be characterized in the context of the crisis. The relationship with the state, through the analysis of certain food programs implemented by the City Government or intensified as a result of the crisis, of which popular kitchens are a vital element, constitute a key variable for understanding this place.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Céu Martins Monteiro Marques

This paper will focus on the conflicts between Orientals and Westerners living in Macao at the beginning of the 20th century. The film Amor e Dedinhos de Pé by the director Luís Filipe Rocha, based on the homonymous novel by Henrique de Senna Fernandes will be analyzed from a perspective of a memory film as it presents a historical reconstruction that portrays the society of Macao at a time when the region was under Portuguese rule. Through the adventures and misadventures of a young man from a declining bourgeois family, both the novel and the film denounce the contrast between Eastern and Western cultures that coexisted at the time. The relationship between the inhabitants will also be seen as a mirror of the social relations that show particularly intense moments of people’s life of the “Christian City” characterized by magnificent ballrooms, well dressed people and homes with servants, which contrasts with the poverty environment lived in the “Chinese Quarter” of dirty and tight alleys where people of humble appearance wander. The city described by Luís Filip Rocha is a place of encounters and disagreements, and also of (i)moral confrontations between East and West which help to characterize the main characters who, at various times, transgress the rules established by a closed and discriminatory society.


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