Marginal coast

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By Joaquin Casariego Rámirez * Litoral Guimar the coast of the island of Tenerife

During the sixties of the last century and caused by upward estimate of the urban, hitherto unsuspected, Spanish cities experienced a strong expansion, with widespread and systematic occupation of their peripheries, driven, for [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | December 30, 2012 | Topics: | Category: PLANNING | Leave a comment

Speculations on Huambo in Angola

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By Rodrigo Vargas

Huambo is a city that emerged, no man's land, for two reasons: plans of the Portuguese monarchy, inherited Republic, for colonization of the central highlands of the country and the convergence of these with the route of the railway line from "Caminhos [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | November 8, 2012 | Category: PLANNING | 2 comments

The plot Ecochard and Casablanca

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By Federico García Barba

House patio Central Carrieres them, Photo Library of National School of Architecture Rabat. Posted in OASE, 82. 2010

Michel Ecochard is one of those characters who have not received the attention they deserve in the historiography of architecture and urbanism [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | October 8, 2012 | Topics: | Category: PLANNING | 3 comments
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