Browsing Núm. 1 (2015) by Title
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Eduardo Neira Alva. Aportes profesionales para el debate sobre el desarrollo territorial y la ecología urbana en América Latina, 1961-1998
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2015-12-18)The exceptional professional career of Peruvian architect and urbanist Eduardo Neira Alva (1924-2005) was not only limited to Peru. Between 1960 and 1980, Neira worked with important Latin American institutions created to ... -
El potencial maderero y la ecología de los bosques amazónicos del Perú
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2015-12-18)Peru’s Amazon rainforest is being destroyed because the timber industry only uses 3% of trees per hectare. Therefore, timber companies cannot be established in the forest, and 97% of trees are unused. These trees are ... -
Pueblos de indios del antiguo Obispado del Cusco
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2015-12-18)The former Bishopric of Cusco used to serve and encompass over 200 towns that now belong to the Departments of Cusco, Apurímac and part of Arequipa. They were the so called «pueblos de indios» («town of indigenous people») ... -
Reflexiones sobre densidad urbana y centralidades en la metrópoli de Lima, siglo XXI
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2015-12-18)This research proposes to study centralities based on how they relate to urban density. It starts with Lima’s urban process, where there are four important plans. The first plan guided expansion beyond the walls of the city. ... -
El star system arquitectónico
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2015-12-18)The term star system, which has been applied to a few famous architects for some time, comes from the movie star system created by large film studios. This is why this paper beings with the first movie “star”, Florence ... -
Thomas Reed. Un arquitecto del siglo XIX
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2015-12-18)Thomas Reed, who was born in 1817 in the Tortola Island, in the Caribbean, and passed away in Daule, Ecuador in 1878, worked as an architect and engineer in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador between 1843 and 1878. Most of ...